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. Which royal tombs were found in China in 1968? | Those of Prince Lui Sheng and his wife. | 2. Which was the only tomb of an Egyptian pharaoh found with all its treasures intact? | That of Tutankhamun. | 3. Which is the most famous prehistoric stone monument in Europe? | Stonehenge. | 4. For what is Easter Island famous? | Carved stone heads. | 5. Where were the earliest human footprints found? | Tanzania | 6. When did civilisation begin in Egypt? | 5000 years ago | 7. How did the Egyptians preserve dead bodies? | Embalming them | 8. Which is the world’s oldest civilisation? | China | 9. Where did the earliest Chinese towns start? | On the banks of the Hwang Ho River | 10. From which language was our word ‘algebra’ taken? | Arabic | 11. Where do numbers come from? | Arabic signs | 12. When did the Greek civilisation begin? | About 2000BC | 13. How was the Greek civilisation organised? | In small city states | 14. Who were Romulus and Remus | Founders of Rome | 15. How wide was the Roman Empire? | Half of Europe and into the Middle East and North Africa | 16. Which was the shortest important war? | Six day war between Arabs and Israelis 1967 | 17. When was the Battle of Somme? | 1916 | 18. When was the Battle of Stalingrad? | 1942-43 | 19. How did this battle affect the course of World War 2? | Germans were weakened. | 20. What was the first armoured warship? | The French Gloire | 21. When was the first underwater attack by a submarine? | 1775 | 22. In which was was this? | American War of Independence | 23. When were the first tanks used in battle? | 1916 | 24. When did the Japanese attck Pearl Harbour? | 7 Dec 1941 | 25. What was a Roman Legion? | 5500 soldiers | 26. Who was Solomon? | King of Israel, son of David | 27. Who was Alexander the Great? | Ruler of Macedonia | 28. Who was Julius Ceasar | Roman soldier, conqueror | 29. Who was Cleopatra? | Ruler of Egypt | 30. Why did she poison herself? | Death of Mark Antony | 31. Who was Charlemagne? | Queen of the British Iceni tribe | 32. What expedition was first to reach the South Pole? | Roald Amunsden | 33. Who were the first explorers to reach the North Pole? | Robert Peary, Matthew Henson. | 34. Who is the Greek god of the sea? | Poseidon | 35. Cupid is the Roman god of love. Who is the Greek god of love? | Eros |
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