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. Find the term that matches with the definition: Anyone who makes or grows a good, or produces a service | producer | 2. Find the term that matches with the definition: products that people want and need such as shoes and toys | goods | 3. Find the term that matches with the definition:anyone who buys a good or service | consumer | 4. Find the term that matches with the definition: the study of making, buying, or selling of goods or services | economics | 5. Find the term that matches with the definition:activities that provide what people want and need such as police | services | 6. Find the term that matches with the definition:when there are not enough resources for all the people that want them | scarcity | 7. Find the term that matches with the definition: a person who takes risk and starts a new business | entrepreneur | 8. Find the term that matches with the definition: the thing that you are giving up when you make an economic choice | opportunity cost | 9. Find the term that matches with the definition: the amount producers will make | supply | 10. Find the term that matches with the definition: the amount consumers are willing to buy at a given price | demand | 11. Find the term that matches with the definition: money the government collects from people to pay for public goods and services | taxes | 12. What are 5 goods or services that taxes pay for? | military, education, roads/highways, road signals and signs, police, fire department | 13. Find the term that matches with the definition: money | currency | 14. Find the term that matches with the definition:people have basic needs such as water, air, food shelter, and sleep | needs | 15. Find the term that matches with the definition: people want things that make their life more enjoyable | wants | 16. Find the term that matches with the definition: swapping one good for another | trade | 17. List 3 examples of capital resources | tools, supplies, rope, laptop, | 18. List 3 examples of human resources | military, teacher, fireman, spy, mechanic | 19. List 3 examples of natural resources | trees, sun, water | 20. What is interdependence and name an example of a producer and consumer that show interdependence. |
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