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. “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.” Is this text found in the Hebrew Scriptures or Christian Scriptures? | Christian Scriptures | 2. “If you wish to be perfect, go, sell your possessions, and give the money to the poor and you will have treasure in heaven.” Is this passage found in the Hebrew Scriptures or Christian Scriptures? | Christian Scriptures | 3. What is the definition of charity? | working to provide short term relief | 4. How is charity different from work for justice? | charity short term relief, justice is working for longterm structural change. | 5. According to the book of Genesis, why should people be treated with dignity? | Made in God's image | 6. What is solidarity? | Being conscious of and standing with those who are suffering | 7. What is the common good? | the conditions whereby everyone can live in dignity and flourish as a human. | 8. What is Caritas Australia? | Catholic Aid Agency | 9. How do Christian organisations that help those suffering in poverty know what is required of them? | Bible and Catholic Social Teaching | 10. List three qualities encouraged by the Beatitudes. | mercy, peace, compassion, thirst for justice, meekness, purity in heart etc. | 11. List five Principles of Catholic Social Teaching. | Life and Dignity of the person, Rights and Responsibilities, Dignity of Work, Call to Family, Community and Participation, Stewardship, Solidarity, Preferential Option for the Poor | 12. Name a country in which Caritas is working to improve the lives of those in poverty. | Samoa - heaps | 13. What is Catholic Mission? | Offical aid and mission org of the Catholic Church, the Pope's own mission org. | 14. What does the word ‘Caritas’ mean? | Compasionate love | 15. The Sermon on the Mount was Moses’ most important teaching: True or False? | False - Jesus' teaching. | 16. The Golden Rule (Matthew 7:12) – is this in the Hebrew Scriptures or the Christian Scriptures? | Christian Scriptures | 17. The Good Samaritan is an important parable because… | tells people that everyone, no matter who, should be loved as a neighbour. | 18. “Injure not the poor because they are poor, nor crush the needy at the gate; For the Lord will defend their cause, and will plunder the lives of those who plunder them.” Is this Proverb in the Hebrew Scriptures or the Christian Scriptures? | Hebrew | 19. “God created humans in His own image; in the image of God He created them” – In what book of the Hebrew Scriptures would this quote be found? | Genesis | 20. Who is the current Pope? | Francis I |
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