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. 1. What is the only U.S. state capital city to not have a McDonald’s? | Montpelier, VT | 2. 2. What is the only muscle in the human body that’s only attached at one end? | The Tongue | 3. 3. What is the name of the Emma Lazarus poem that’s engraved on a bronze plaque inside the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty? | New Colossus | 4. 4. To the closest quarter of an inch, what is the diameter of the hole on the green of a golf course? | 4.25 inches | 5. 5. Pete Best, Brian Epstein, George Martin & Stu Sutcliffe have all been dubbed with what nickname? | The Fifth Beatle | 6. 6. What soft drink was once marketed as “Zero Proof Hillbilly Moonshine”? | Mountain Dew | 7. 7. What’s the most widely spoken native language in the world? | Mandarin Chinese | 8. 8. What three ingredients are considered the “Holy Trinity” of all Italian food? | Garlic, Onion & Tomato | 9. 9. What 1927 Al Jolson film was the first full-length movie to have audible dialog (a talkie)? | The Jazz Singer | 10. 10. What does GT stand for when it follows a car model’s name? (as in Celica GT)? | Grand Tourer or Gran Turismo | 11. 11. What time zone is immediately east of the Eastern Time Zone? | Atlantic Time Zone | 12. 12. What model of SUV did 70 million TV viewers follow for over 2 hours on June 17, 1994? | Ford Bronco | 13. 13. What national chain is named after the first mate in Herman Melville’s Moby Dick? | Starbucks | 14. 15. What U.S. city was the original Monopoly game board based on? | Atlantic City, NJ | 15. Bonus: What is Alan Rhees's favorite app? | Evernote |
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