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. I need a Drink (AR51-12) | Bubbler outside Auditorium | 2. Howzatt!!! (GR495-115) | Cricket nets | 3. Your second home (GR513,129) (Clue: Looking upwards) | G1 under desk | 4. One of your favourite teachers...maybe (GR505-125) | Mr Williams | 5. AR5059 (There are two clues to solve then come back to Mr Williams) | They are coordinates of the next clue | 6. The name of the process that causes the tectonic plates to move | Convection flow | 7. This is a trick QR code. Look near the wooden house | no answer | 8. Identify the four spheres that influence the Earth's Environment | Lithosphere Biosphere Atmosphere Hydrosphere | 9. Create a simple map of an island surrounded by sea that contains BOLTSS | No answer | 10. GR486125 QUIETLY Find the clue, you wont need to knock | It's on the door of E-Block staffroom | 11. Take a picture of something that is part of the Biosphere and show Mr Williams | Plant, tree, person etc | 12. Identify four of the different types of maps you can have | Political Thematic Topographic Physical | 13. Living near Volcano's has some advantages the next clue can be found in one of these advantages at GR499122 | Buried under soil in the small garden patch | 14. What is the difference between Physical and Human elements in Geography? | Human are man made elements and Physical are made by nature | 15. Find an important symbol that represents our country's culture (Clue:Drop-off) | Australian Flag on flag pole | 16. Quick, Get back to Mr Williams and tell him what an ecosystem is plus give him an example of a food chain | the interaction of living things and the physical environment + Grass eaten by rabbit, eaten by Zebra, eaten by Lion. | 17. Well done, your finished | Finish |
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