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.
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1. What is the most difficult language to learn? | Basque | 2. How many different languages are spoken on the continent of Africa? | More than 1,000. | 3. What is the national language of the United States? | There isn't one. | 4. What is the most widely spoken language in the world? | Chinese | 5. What are the 2nd & 3rd most widely used languages in the U.S.? | Spanish and American Sign Language | 6. How many different languages are there in the world? | Approximately 6500 | 7. What is Esperanto? | A constructed language | 8. What are the 6 official languages of the United Nations? | English, Spanish, French, Russian, Arabic, Chinese | 9. What is the only African country where the entire population speaks the same language? And what language is it? | Somalia / Somali | 10. What percentage of Americans are bilingual? | 15%-20% | 11. Name five romance languages: | Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French, Romanian | 12. How many languages has Harry Potter been translated into? | 68 | 13. Name five Germanic languages: | English, German, Dutch, Swedish, Icelandic, Norwegian | 14. Name five Slavic languages: | Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, Czech, Bosnian / Croatian / Serbian, Bulgarian, Slovak | 15. Which language has the most vowel sounds? | Sedang - Vietnam |
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