1. Arrange students into groups. Each group needs at least ONE person who has a mobile device.
2. If their phone camera doesn't automatically detect and decode QR codes, ask students to
4. Cut them out and place them around your class / school.
1. Give each group a clipboard and a piece of paper so they can write down the decoded questions and their answers to them.
2. Explain to the students that the codes are hidden around the school. Each team will get ONE point for each question they correctly decode and copy down onto their sheet, and a further TWO points if they can then provide the correct answer and write this down underneath the question.
3. Away they go! The winner is the first team to return with the most correct answers in the time available. This could be within a lesson, or during a lunchbreak, or even over several days!
4. A detailed case study in how to set up a successful QR Scavenger Hunt using this tool can be found here.
Question | Answer |
| 1. I have 40 metres of ribbon. Mrs Gibson needs ribbon in 30cm lengths. How many lengths of ribbon can she have? | 133 | 2. Year 6 are going to a party, they will be having pizza to eat. Three fifths of the children want pepperoni pizza, while the rest want margarita. If 28 children choose margarita pizza, how many chose pepperoni? | 42 | 3. Charles Darwin was born on February 12th 1809, he died on April 17th 1882. How many months old was her when he died? | 878 | 4. A recipe for 3 milkshakes uses 6 bananas, 450g or ice-cream and 3/4 litre of milk. How much of each ingredient would I need to make 4 milkshakes? | 8 600 1l | 5. James bought a pack of 12 stickers for £10.49. Sarah bought 12 single stickers for 99p each. How much more dis Saraj pay than James? | £1.39 | 6. Write the Roman Numeral 1809 in figures. | MDCCCIX | 7. Some children raise money for a local charity by baking and selling cakes. They raise a total of £126. Each child collected £9. How many children were there? | 18 | 8. A rectangle has an area of 680 square cm. The length is 40cm, what is the width? | 17cm | 9. Which 2 of the following numbers add up to 1? 0.9, 0.99, 0.11, 0.01. | 0.99 and 0.01 | 10. Look at the picture. Amy has £5, she buys 1 bunch of tulips and 3 bunches of daffodils. How many roses can she buy with her change? | 5 | 11. Lois thinks of a number, she divides it by 9, then adds 25 to the answer. Her answer is 36. What number did she start with? | 99 | 12. A builder needs 7600 bricks to build a wall. There are 500 bricks in one load. How many loads must he buy? | 16 | 13. Bricks cost £230 for 500. What is the cost of a single brick? | 46p | 14. Sara, Amy and Jack stand on some weighing scales 2 at a time. Sara and Amy weigh 70kg. Sara and Jack weigh 80kg. Jack and Amy weigh 80kg. How much does Jack weigh? | 45kg | 15. Solve (32-5.7)X(32+5.7) | 991.51 |
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