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. At what age did Spartan boys go off to train to be soldiers? | 7 | 2. The most appropriate CCI tool to use for putting a 1/2” diameter hole into a piece of 1” thick wood? | Drill Press | 3. Name 3 Greek Gods | Misc | 4. What did the Monstrous Typhon do to Zeus to punish him? | removed the tendons from his legs and hid them in a cave | 5. Where did Zeus live? | Mount Olympus | 6. You need these 2 things to use a glue gun safely and properly: | space, glove | 7. What beast did Theseus slay? | the minotaur | 8. Who headed the household in ancient Greece? | husband/father | 9. Who received an education in ancient Greece? | Only the children of citizens, very few girls | 10. What type of education did boys receive in Sparta? | military | 11. What did Greek men do for recreation? | Greek men enjoyed talking in the agora, at symposiums in their homes, sports, exercise and swimming | 12. You need these 3 things to use a sharp cutting tool (with a razor) safely? | tool, glove, cutting mat | 13. What did Greek women do for recreation? | very little outside the home except religious events | 14. Which city-state was the only one to have a standing army? | Sparta | 15. Who won the war between Greece and King Xerxes I of Persia? | The Greeks defeated Xerxes | 16. Which two Greek city-states rivaled each other for dominance of the Greek world during the middle and late 400’s B.C.? | Athens and Sparta | 17. Which kingdom, to the north of Greece, conquered Greece in 338 B.C.? | Macedonia | 18. What is the most important element of safety in the CCI? | YOUR focus and presence of mind | 19. ________ style columns are plain, sturdy and heavy with simple capitals and no base. | Doric | 20. The name of the legendary city that was at the center of the Trojan Wars. | Troy | 21. What are the three types of architectural columns found in ancient Greece? | Doric, Ionic and Corinthian | 22. What is the last thing you do after using a glue gun, soldering iron or heat gun? | unplug |
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