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. What artist applied his colors in small dots? | Monet | 2. In the Portrait of Tutankhamun, which god is the pharoah presented as? | Osiris | 3. The "Age of Discovery" is another name for the period known as what? | Renaissance | 4. Ophelia was a figure in which Shakespeare play? | Hamlet | 5. What was the art movement that attempted to present various perspectives simultaneously known as? | Cubism | 6. Compared to an Egyptian ka statue, Poseidon/Zeus is more_______ | dynamic | 7. If you found a page of drawings of precise, anatomical studies in an antique store, then you would be MOST likely to think it was by which of our featured artists? | Da Vinci | 8. What art for was criticized as merely "a series of completely manual operations"? | Photography | 9. The first hit hip-hop song, "Rapper's Delight" was performed by what group? | Sugarhill Gang | 10. Find the slope of the line that passes through the points (1,9) and (-1,3). | 3 | 11. Why did Dillard decide to cut three mantis egg cases and bring them home to her own yard? | To protect them from the mother | 12. The mortal dangers of the ocean are conveyed in which short selection work? | Passage to India | 13. What was the first law to address sulfur emissions from power plants that run on oil and coal? | 1970 Clean Air Act | 14. Which Country in the Annex II category of the Kyoto Protocol has demonstrated the fastest growth in solar photovoltaic production sicn the protocol was ratified? | China | 15. In the US, 1979 was a year of energy crises for which two types of energy sources? | wood and coal |
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