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 have a sound that goes beep, and while the time I do keep, my main function is to heat | Microwave | 2. what has a ring but no finger | Telephone | 3. What invention lets you look right through a wall? | window | 4. What has hands but can't feel | Clock | 5. What goes up and down but never moves | Stairs | 6. It has 4 legs but does not run | Table | 7. What get's wetter as it dries? | Towel | 8. I have keys but no locks, with space but no room and allow you to enter but not get in. | Keyboard | 9. I start with an "e", I end with an "e", but I usually contain only one letter? | Envelope | 10. What goes up when the rain comes down | Umbrella | 11. Bright like diamonds, hard like rock, I'm crushed or cubed or solid block. Look inside me | IceCube | 12. The only place in the world, where saturday comes before thursday. | Dictionary | 13. I have bark but do not bite! | Tree | 14. Plug but no bath. Ink but no pen. Paper but no news. Cable but no TV. | Printer | 15. I have a neck, but no head, but I still wear a cap | bottle | 16. tear off my skin and I won't cry, but you will | onion | 17. Look for a seat you push with your feet! | Swing | 18. kt ia tg cf hh ed nr take out all the second letters and join. | Kitchen | 19. As I clean I get dirtier. What am I? | Napkin | 20. I wave all day but never tire, at the end of the day I retire. What am I | Flag | 21. its between clinton and obama | bush | 22. Turn up the heat it will help you bake, Cookies, casseroles, even a cake. | oven | 23. what has teeth but can not eat? | comb | 24. People knock on me to say hello but lock me up after their visitors go | front door | 25. used from head to toes, the more its used the thinner it grows | soap | 26. what belongs to you but is used more by others than you? | your name | 27. What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years? | M | 28. what is full of holes but still holds water?? | sponge | 29. I have head and tail, but no legs. I am that for which the beggar begs. | coin | 30. It May Have a Pi, But eaten it can't be , Use its root before nine and you will get three | Calculator |
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