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. Which class made the Wings of Courage from The Grand Genius summer of Henry Hoobler? Bonus- take a photo of someone wearing them! | 56H | 2. At which Dewey Decimal number would you find books about Python, Scratch, JavaScript and programming? | 000 | 3. Who lives at 4 Privet Drive? | Harry Potter | 4. Who is responsible for Thelma, Noah, Charlie, Pearl, Annabel, Stanley, Sunday and Pig all being on the same shelf? | Aaron Blabey | 5. Oh there once was a swagman camped in a billabong Under the shade of a Coolabah tree, And he sang as he looked at his old billy boiling, “Who’ll come a-waltzing Matilda with me.” Who wrote this? | Banjo Patterson | 6. Where the teacher’s find the answers? | Teacher’s Resource Room | 7. I’m mostly covered by water but I’m not an iceberg | globe | 8. BJ Novak wrote a book with no pictures, but this section of books are the opposite. | Wordless | 9. Who runs the Chocolate Factory? | Willy Wonka | 10. Mix baked beans and onions and you'll end up with tear gas. Where might you find a better recipe? | 641 | 11. If you need to see in the darkness of the night, give me a nudge and I'll give you light. | lamp | 12. The section of books in which a hidden part of an illustration can be revealed by turning over a card or bit of paper is called? | flap | 13. Countdown, Blast Off, Orbit and Touchdown. What are we? | School magazines | 14. Which class used sign language to spell their names just like the Boy in Phil Cummings book? | 12PS | 15. Find the shelf with books written in picture strips. What is on their spine label? | Graphic Novels | 16. “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” Readers are leaders, no doubt about that. Who said this? | Dr Seuss | 17. I am a classic toy. Rectangular bricks in all the colours of the rainbow. Build anything you can imagine with me. | Lego | 18. Who could imagine a family with characters like Bad Dad, Gangsta Granny, Awful Auntie and the World’s Worst Children? | David Walliams | 19. What is the driest continent? | Antarctica | 20. Jack Heath teamed up with magician Cosentino to write this series of books. In which box do we keep this series? |
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