QR Challenge: Inventors & Engineers Scavenger Hunt
Teacher Notes
A. Prior to the lesson:
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
- Download a QR reader (e.g. I-Nigma | NeoReader | Kaywa) onto their mobile devices
- Bring these devices into the lesson.
3. Print out the QR codes.
4. Cut them out and place them around your class / school.
B. The lesson:
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!
C. TIPS / OTHER IDEAS
4. A detailed case study in how to set up a successful QR Scavenger Hunt using this tool can be found here.
Questions / Answers (teacher reference)
Question | Answer |
1. What "invention" did Vannevar Bush write about in a 1945 essay? | computer
|
2. Who invented the frisbee? | Walter Fredrick Morrison
| 3. Did Ben Franklin "invent" electricity? | No
| 4. Which inventor was often called the "Lady Edison"? | Beula Louise Henry
| 5. Who invented the microphone? | Emile Berliner
| 6. Who was the inventor of the first television? | John Logie Baird
| 7. Who invented the telephone? | Alexander Graham Bell
| 8. Who invented the cotton gin? | Eli Whitney
| 9. Who invented the light bulb? | Ben Franklin
| 10. Since when has the toothbrush been in existence? | 3000 BC
| 11. What were the first thermometers called? | Thermoscope
| 12. Who invented the windshield wiper? | Mary Anderson
| 13. Who invented the band aid? | Earle Dickson
| 14. When was Coca-Cola invented? | 1886
| 15. What American inventor created hundreds of products from the peanut? | George Washington Carver |
Inventors & Engineers Scavenger Hunt: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=What_"invention"_did_Vannevar_Bush_write_about_in_a_1945_essay?
Question 1 (of 15)
Inventors & Engineers Scavenger Hunt: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Who_invented_the_frisbee?
Question 2 (of 15)
Inventors & Engineers Scavenger Hunt: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Did_Ben_Franklin_"invent"_electricity?
Question 3 (of 15)
Inventors & Engineers Scavenger Hunt: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Which_inventor_was_often_called_the_"Lady_Edison"?
Question 4 (of 15)
Inventors & Engineers Scavenger Hunt: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Who_invented_the_microphone?
Question 5 (of 15)
Inventors & Engineers Scavenger Hunt: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Who_was_the_inventor_of_the_first_television?
Question 6 (of 15)
Inventors & Engineers Scavenger Hunt: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Who_invented_the_telephone?
Question 7 (of 15)
Inventors & Engineers Scavenger Hunt: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Who_invented_the_cotton_gin?
Question 8 (of 15)
Inventors & Engineers Scavenger Hunt: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Who_invented_the_light_bulb?
Question 9 (of 15)
Inventors & Engineers Scavenger Hunt: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Since_when_has_the_toothbrush_been_in_existence?
Question 10 (of 15)
Inventors & Engineers Scavenger Hunt: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=What_were_the_first_thermometers_called?
Question 11 (of 15)
Inventors & Engineers Scavenger Hunt: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Who_invented_the_windshield_wiper?
Question 12 (of 15)
Inventors & Engineers Scavenger Hunt: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Who_invented_the_band_aid?
Question 13 (of 15)
Inventors & Engineers Scavenger Hunt: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=When_was_Coca-Cola_invented?
Question 14 (of 15)
Inventors & Engineers Scavenger Hunt: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=What_American_inventor_created_hundreds_of_products_from_the_peanut?
Question 15 (of 15)