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. This country contains a large amount of the tundra (ecosystem) that is so important to the earth. It also has 11 time zones | Russia | 2. This southern hemisphere country has a small amount of chaparral and even marine west coast climate, even though it is found on the east coast of the country | South Africa | 3. Contains many different climates and ecosystems because it is so large. It a republic and is a SUPERPOWER | United States | 4. President is Enrique Pena Nieto, very important country to NAFTA | Mexico | 5. Member of NATO, HUGE, and stereotyping this country they all love bacon and hockey | Canada | 6. Mountainous island that has had conflict with the U.S. in the past | Cuba | 7. Favelas, Carnival, Soccer, Rainforest, developing | Brazil | 8. This country has mostly a marine west coast climate, quite powerful, member of NATO, Union Jack is the nickname of the flag | United Kingdom | 9. The EU can sure thank this country for being so industrialized and industrious | Germany | 10. Location, Location, Location of this SE Asian nation makes its dollar rather strong | Singapore | 11. | France | 12. Much of this country is desert, but due to a very important river (and dam for that matter), make this a rather populated country | Egypt | 13. This country has rather good farmland and large oil deposits, but this country has much trouble solidifying and many feel it was because of European or other Western Influence | Nigeria | 14. This country has a tropical wet and try climate and tropical grassland ecosystem. The equator runs through it | Kenya | 15. Country that still possesses a monarchy, the U.S. is allies with this country, it is rather oil rich and dependent on desalination plants | Saudi Arabia | 16. | Iraq | 17. This country is one of the least developed in the world due to the number of outside forces that have occupied or heavily influenced it in the past 30+ years | Afghanistan | 18. Monsoons, the world's largest democracy, Ghats, Hinduism, Diwali | India | 19. Economic Zones, trade, citizen restriction of some human rights, one of the U.S.'s biggest trading partners | China | 20. Communist, on a peninsula, and they let Dennis Rodman in? | North Korea | 21. Seoul | South Korea | 22. We're #3! Says this archipelago nation about their economy (not including the EU) | Japan | 23. Formal penal colony of the British, mostly desert, in the Southern Hemisphere. | Australia | 24. This Oceanic country is made up of two major islands, The Lord of the Rings was filmed there, and while the Maori inhabited it first, the English colonized it (you are welcome Sam and Jordan!) | New Zealand | 25. Country with the fifth largest population in the world, largest Muslim country | Indonesia |
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