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. The name of a star that is the source of light and heat for the planets in our solar system. | Sun | 2. This is the closest planet to the Sun, very cold on one side and very hot on the other, smallest planet, and no moons. This is the smallest planet in our solar system. | Mercury | 3. This is the 2nd planet from Sun, covered with volcanoes, no moon, hottest planet, and rotates very slowly and backwards. This planet is also known as "Earth's Twin" because it is similar in diameter and size. | Venus | 4. This is the 3rd planet from Sun. It has one moon, orbits the sun in 365 days and one rotation in 24 hours, and life exists on this planet. | Earth | 5. This is the 4th planet from Sun. It is called the "Red Planet" because red colour caused by iron in the crust that has rusted, has polar ice caps and it is 1/2 the size of Earth. | Mars | 6. This is the 5th planet from Sun. It has the most moons, is the largest planet, is a gas giant and has a large red spot. | Jupiter | 7. This is the 6th planet from Sun. It has spectacular rings made mostly of ice and frosted rock and it is a gas giant made mostly of hydrogen gas. | Saturn | 8. This is the 7th planet from Sun. rotates on its side, blue green colour and is a gas giant. | Uranus | 9. This is the 8th planet from Sun. This planet appears blue when viewed through a telescope, and has the highest winds in solar system, and it rotates counter-clockwise. | Neptune | 10. Since 2006, it is no longer termed a planet, but now called a "Dwarf Planet". | Pluto | 11. This is a huge group of single stars, star systems, star clusters, dust, and gas, bound together by gravity. | Galaxy | 12. This is a celestial body of hot gases. | Star | 13. This is a satellite that revolves around a planet. Effects the tides in the ocean on Earth. | Moon | 14. This is an object consisting of ice and dust that leaves a tail pointing away from the sun. It is a dirty space snowball. | Comet | 15. This is a small rocky body orbiting the Sun. | Asteroid | 16. This is a celestial body orbiting a star. There are 8 in our solar system. | Planet | 17. This is a large cloud of dust and gas in space. | Nebula | 18. This is material from outer space that burns up as it enters Earth's atmosphere. | Meteor | 19. This is a meteoroid that reaches the Earth's surface without burning up completely. | Meteorite | 20. The name of our galaxy. | The Milky Way |
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