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. Go out of the academy and turn left. Take a right turn at the end of the road and at the next junction take a photo of an animal that has scales and fins and you can find in the sea. It is often eaten with chips in England. | fish | 2. Go straight on with the sea on your left. Pass the bus stop and the parking. Take a photo of an animal that is famous in Spain. | Bull | 3. Go straight on. Keep the sea on your left. When you arrive at the pedestrian walkway you will see a man running through a wall. Take a photo of him. | Man running through a wall | 4. A little further up the road there is a turning to your left. On this junction you need to find a real chicken and take a photo of it. It can be dead or alive. | Fresh chicken from the Carnicería | 5. Go down the road in the direction of the supermarket. At the second junction on your left take a photo of something sweet, cold and delicious in summer. | ice-cream - opera | 6. Carry straight on towards the supermarket. Just before the next junction you need a photo of a place where a King or queen might live. | Castle - Reginella | 7. Turn right after the restaurant. Go to the end of the street and take a right again. At the end of the road you need to take a photo of something that can cook meat. | BBQ - Ferretería playa | 8. Turn left. Walk up the road towards the roundabout. Take a photo of a pair of Desigual shoes. | Desigual shoes - Outlet | 9. Go around the roundabout past the baker’s and turn right. Just as you turn right, you need to take a photo of a Canarian Flag. | Canarian Flag - Chinese | 10. Walking down the road towards the plaza (or what’s left of it!) on the left you will see something that can be used to help you see better. You need a photo of it. | Glasses - optician | 11. At the bottom of the road turn left. Walk about 50m up the road and then take a photo of a small animal that has fur and long ears. It likes to eat carrots. It must be alive! | hamster - Animalandia | 12. When you leave the shop there is a road directly opposite that leads down to the beach. Go down here. Take a photo of something that people use to protect themselves from the sun. | Beach umbrella | 13. Turn right. Just past the beach there is a park. Take a photo of something that children can sit on. It goes back and forward and back and forward and back and forward… and sometimes very high! | Park – swings | 14. Go straight on and cross the road at the zebra crossing in front of Vitamín. With the sea on your left, walk along the road. At the next junction there is a supermarket. Go inside and ask politely to take a photo of a drink that comes from a cow. The shop assistant has your next code. | Covimira – milk | 15. Find an English tourist. Find out where they are from. Ask politely if you can have a photo with them and then return to the Academy!!! | tourist |
Question 1 (of 15)
Question 2 (of 15)
Question 3 (of 15)
Question 4 (of 15)
Question 5 (of 15)
Question 6 (of 15)
Question 7 (of 15)
Question 8 (of 15)
Question 9 (of 15)
Question 10 (of 15)
Question 11 (of 15)
Question 12 (of 15)
Question 13 (of 15)
Question 14 (of 15)
Question 15 (of 15)