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. Odysseus fought here for 10 years on the side of the Greeks. | Troy | 2. 2. The name of the men who live in the city of Ismarus. | Cicones | 3. 3. After eating the exotic fruit of these people Odysseus and his men lost their memories. | Lotus Eaters | 4. 4. Polyphemus was one of these. | Cyclopes | 5. 5. He is the god of the winds. | King Aioles | 6. 6. Odysseus's ships were blown back to his kingdom after opening the bag. | King Aioles | 7. 7. They are a race of powerful giants. | Laistrygonians | 8. 8. She is the witch who turned some of Odysseus's men into pigs. | Circe | 9. 9. Odysseus meets Achilles in this kingdom ruled by Hades. | The Underworld | 10. 10.They can lure men to drive their ships into rocks. | Sirens | 11. 11.These are two sea monsters Circe warned Odysseus to avoid. | Scylla and Charybdis | 12. 12. He is the personification of the sun. | Helios | 13. 13. She is the nymph who fell in love with Odysseus. | Calypso | 14. 14. These people clothe and feed Odysseus before providing him with swift boats. | Phaeacians | 15. 15. The home of Odysseus. | Ithaca |
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