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. Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be. ~Thomas à Kempis, Imitation of Christ, c.1420 | 1 | 2. You've got a lot of choices. If getting out of bed in the morning is a chore and you're not smiling on a regular basis, try another choice. ~Steven D. Woodhull (U.S. geologist, 1976-) | 2 | 3. What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars, 1939, translated from French by Lewis Galantière | 3 | 4. Don't wait for the Last Judgment. It happens every day. ~Albert Camus, The Fall, 1956 | 4 | 5. Good for the body is the work of the body, and good for the soul is the work of the soul, and good for either is the work of the other. ~Henry David Thoreau | 5 | 6. Remember, if you’re headed in the wrong direction, God allows U-turns! ~Allison Gappa Bottke | 6 | 7. Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all life really means. ~Robert Louis Stevenson | 7 | 8. If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree. ~Jim Rohn | 8 | 9. In what you say of another, apply the test of kindness, necessity and truth, and let nothing pass your lips without a 2/3 majority. ~Liz Armbruster, on www.robertbrault.com | 9 | 10. See everything; overlook a great deal; correct a little. ~Pope John XXIII | 10 | 11. Give thanks for what you are now, and keep fighting for what you want to be tomorrow. ~Fernanda Miramontes-Landeros | 11 | 12. Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | 12 | 13. You will turn over many a futile new leaf till you learn we must all write on scratched-out pages. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960 | 13 | 14. If you surrender to the wind, you can ride it. ~Toni Morrison | 14 | 15. Never miss an opportunity to make others happy, even if you have to leave them alone in order to do it. ~Author Unknown | 15 | 16. Do not confuse your vested interests with ethics. Do not identify the enemies of your privilege with the enemies of humanity. ~Max Lerner, Actions and Passions, 1949 | 16 | 17. The secret to happiness in your work is to find a job in which your neurosis is constructive. ~Jeanne LaMont, MD | 17 | 18. Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste. ~Brecht | 18 | 19. Now that it's all over, what did you really do yesterday that's worth mentioning? ~Coleman Cox | 19 |
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