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. Located in Houston, it is larger than Central Park in New York City | Memorial Park | 2. This 155-acre urban sanctuary provides five miles of walking trails | Houston Arboretum and Nature Center | 3. Disguised as a man, she joined the Second Michigan Infantry and served two years as a Civil War private | Sarah Edmonds Grave | 4. This was the childhood home of the eccentric subject of the film The Aviator | Howard Hughes House | 5. This Victorian castle was built from 1886 to 1892 | Bishop’s Place | 6. Commissioned in 1914 it was the first to mount anti-aircraft guns, launch an aircraft, and use commercial radar | Battleship Texas | 7. This place has housed training and mission control facilities since 1961 | Johnson Space Center | 8. Originally known as Houston Negro Hospital, this was the first nonprofit hospital for African-American patients and doctors | Riverside General Hospical | 9. To raise money for the venture, boosters sell a specially branded barbecue sauce | Buffalo Soldiers National Museum | 10. The first cemetery in Austin dedicated soley to African-Americans | Bethany Cemetary | 11. This was the first library in Austin, it was turned into a library in 1980 | George Washington Carver Museum and Cultural Center | 12. This church was the center of the first freedman’s town west of the Mississippi | Sweet Hope Baptist Church | 13. This school was opened in 1881 to provide free public education for African-American children in the Gregory Town freedmen’s community | Blackshear Elementary School | 14. Martin Luther King Jr. and Lyndon B. Johnson visited this house to discuss the future of the civil rights movement | Juanita J. Craft Civil Rights House | 15. This plant closed in 2002 and some of its buildings were imploded in 210 | Imperial Sugar | 16. Named for a feature on the moon, this opened in 1979 on the 10th anniversary of man’s first lunar landing | Tranquility Park | 17. A furniture store was built on the site of Buff Stadium | Houston Sports Museum | 18. This grassy knoll was named after civic leader G. B. Dealey | Dealey Plaza | 19. The final resting place of the first president of the Republic of Texas | Sam Houston Monument/Sam Houston’s Grave | 20. Confederate forces drove Union troops out of this crucial port | Battle of Galveston | 21. Texas was declared an independent nation on this site | Washington-on-the-Brazos |
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