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. 1. Which is another way to write the numeral 14,363? | fourteen thousand, three hundred sixty-three | 2. 2. A penny has a mass of 2.5 grams. A quarter has a mass of 5.67 grams. What is the difference of their masses? | 3.17 | 3. 3. Ricky saves $7 each week. Use rounding to estimate the amount he will have saved after one year. | $350 | 4. 4. Maria owns a rental shop at a beach club. Last year, she bought 6 used water ski boats for $3, 179 each. How much did Maria spend on the vehicles? | $19, 074 | 5. 5. Elizabeth is making 20 necklaces. Each necklace has 16 beads. How many beads does she need to make all of the necklaces? | 320 beads | 6. 6. There are 35 trees in each of the 94 rows of cherry trees. All other rows are apple trees. How many apple trees in all are in the orchard? | 2240 trees | 7. 7. Peter has 52 new stickers. If he puts an equal number of stickers on each of 6 blank pages in his sticker book, how many stickers does he have left over? | 4 stickers | 8. 8. Bernie has collected 1,005 different types of rocks. She puts the same amount of rocks in each of 5 display cases. How many rocks does Bernie place in each case? | 201 rocks | 9. 9. Donna read 34 books last year, and Amanda read 26 books. The total number of books read by both students is 3 times the number of books Matthew read last year. How many books did Matthew read last year? | 20 books | 10. 10. Tony made 8 goals in 12 penalty kicks. What is the simplest form of the fraction 8/12? | 2/3 | 11. 11. Irma cut a strip of paper that 5/8 inch long. Terri cut a strip that was 3/8 inch long. How much longer is Irma's strip of paper than Terri's strip of paper reduced to the lowest term? | 1/4 inch | 12. 12. Which is the most appropriate unit of measurement to measure the length of an earthworm? Feet, yards, miles or inches? | inches | 13. 13. A picnic table is 9 feet long and 3 feet wide. What is the area of the rectangular surface of the table? | 27 square feet | 14. 14. Daisy's dog pen measures 4 meters wide and 5 meters long. What is the perimeter of the pen? | 18 meters | 15. 15. Which is the measure of an angle that cuts off 1/4 of a circle? | 90 degrees | 16. 16. Luis is leaving for vacation in 5 hours. How many minutes are in 5 hours? | 300 minutes | 17. 17. Jennifer takes 30 minutes to get dressed for school. She eats breakfast for 20 minutes, then walks to school. It takes her 15 minutes to walk to school. Jennifer needs to be school by 8:55 A.M. What time is the lastest she should get out ob bed in the morning? | 7:50 a.m. |
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