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. There are 100 acorns in a box and 100 boxes in a carton. How many acorns are in one carton? The place where it all began? | 10,000 | 2. Divide me by 10 and multiply the answer by 100.You will get 32. What am I? - try an under-cover place where you can sit and chat with your friends | 3.20 | 3. How many months are there in a century? How about a game of chess? | 12000 | 4. Isabella saved £15 per week for 100 weeks. How much did she have? A house named after a nocturnal bird? | £1500 | 5. Multiplying any number by 10, by 10 and by 10 again is the same as multiplying by 1000? How about songs around the campfire? | True | 6. 507 divided by 100? Year 2 play here in the sunshine? | £5.07 | 7. 500 divided by ? = 20 Year 1 play here in the sunshine? | 25 | 8. Write the remainder as a fraction eg: 42 divided by 5 = 8 r2/5 85 divided by 9? Reception children only! | 9 4/9 | 9. How many teams can be made: 95 players - teams of 6? The garden name after a significant year? | 16 r5/6 | 10. 6cubed subtract 6squared =? Mr Sugden hides in here! | 180 | 11. Find the total number of days in the months of September, October and November? Hot chocolate and baking takes place here? | 91 | 12. Write 3 common multiples for these sets of numbers: 2 and 7? 2, 6, 5? 10,15,25? A large area used for gathering lots of children and teachers? | 14;30;100 | 13. I am a common multiple of 3, 4 and 6 and I am also a square number? Mrs Farley asks people to sit here? | 36 | 14. Name 5 quadrilaterals? Year 3 prints here? | square, rhombus, trapezium, parallelogram, rectangle. | 15. A rhombus is parallelogram with four equal sides? A place where you can curl up and enjoy a good book? | True | 16. A trapezium is always symmetrical? Dance your heart out here? | False | 17. A kite always has two pairs of equal angles? Play a tune around here? | True | 18. Write the number of acute, obtuse and reflex angles in an arrowhead shape? Where PE equipment is safely stored? | 3 acute and 1 reflex | 19. How many 400g packs of chocolate can be filled from a 10KG box? The youngest children in school learn here? | 2,500 | 20. 0.3 x 0.5 =? You can see a fountain in here? | 0.15 | 21. On the 23rd of October the sun rises at 08.03 and sets at 15.50. How many hours and minutes of daylight are there on this day? You have finished!!! Head back to Year 6 with your answers | 7hours47mins |
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