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 ancient festival does Halloween originate from? | Samhain. | 2. What does the word 'witch' actually mean? | It comes from the word 'wicca' which means 'wise one'. | 3. How do witches 'make' magic? | They create potions and cast spells. | 4. Name the main three instruments commonly associated with witches? | Broomstick, cauldron, black cat. | 5. What ideas are there about how broomsticks are associated as a witch's vehicle for flying? | If a woman was away from her house, she would leave her broomstick outside the door to let people know | 6. When were the infamous Salem witch trials held? | In 1692. | 7. What is the technical name for a witch's pet creature? | A familiar. | 8. What was a 'familiar' believed to be? | A demon helper. | 9. How does a witch mark appear? | A witch would prick a part of her body for her familiar (demon helper) to suck blood from. | 10. How many people were execute at the infamous Salem witch trials? | 2o - 19 were hanged and 1 was pressed to death. | 11. What is an 'athame' and what was it used for? | A double-edged knife with a black handle, which was used similarly to a wand - to direct her magical powers. | 12. What is a witch's ladder and what was it used for? | A short rope with knots in it - as a witch recited her spell and brewed potions, she would tie and untie the knots. | 13. Name three ways a witch would be tested? | tortured - ducking: (a witch would be tied and thrown into water - if she drowned she was innocent, if she floated she was a witch); witch's cradle: a witch was put in a sack and swung and spun from a tree branch until they confessed; no sleep until they confessed. | 14. Why was salt used as a witch detector? | It was thought that witches could not eat anything that had been salted - if they choked or were sick after eating it, then they were a witch. | 15. Name a famous witch hunter. | Matthew Hopkins. | 16. What is Malleus Maleficarum (The Hammer of Witches)? | A guidebook for spotting witches. | 17. When was the Malleus Maleficarum released? | In 1487. | 18. At what period of time was the 'burning times'? | In 1550-1650. | 19. Who was the last person in England to be executed as a witch? | Alice Molland. | 20. When did the first images of a witch riding a broomstick appear? | 1280. |
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