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. Hello you, this is a clue, The first of several really. read it slow and go with the flow and I hope it won't be too chilly! I am the first of my kind and a wealth of wisdom, yet I am barely used. Before pride comes the fall, and boy I can fall such a long way. | BRITANNICA BOOK A | 2. 2. HELLO? CAN YOU HEAR ME? ITS REALLY DARK HERE, THE LAST THING I SAW WAS TWO MONTHS AGO - A MONSTER CAME FROM THE DEPTHS AND STOLE THE RUG I WAS PROTECTING. | The loft light switch. | 3. 3. I carry all the answers, the key to true love! I kept those two going, I gave them that last shove. Although my time is up and I’ve been the great grafter. The end of me symbolises their happy ever after | IN THE BOOK | 4. 4. Gosh, you know what I hate? Old people, they never understand me - i am the all-powerful, the new generation. I am the first thing people talk about when they walk through the door. I DOMINATE the house, except when there's a power-cut. | WIFI BOX | 5. 5. Some call me high maintenance or controlling but I disagree. I just love to provide entertainment to the masses. Try to find me if you dare, usually nobody can. If I could, I would SCREEN from the top of my lungs. | INSIDE REMOTE CONTROL | 6. 6. I am a crimson hero, here to save the day! I listen for those words, “it broke!” I think they’ll say. I’m surrounded by lots of stuff, it really is unkempt. I wait in hidden shadows that kind of smell like hemp. | BOTTOM OF TOOLBOX | 7. 7. I am one of two, a real thing of beauty. I have an ordered structure; my colours can be fruity. I’ve not been killed, but have been hung; Was not framed, I did no wrong. Search for me, and you will be, a third of the way through, you cutie! | BEHIND PAINTINGS | 8. 8. My father shared a name with a guy from Orlando Magic, #2 HE was but my father was quite tragic. To find me you will be a little way from home, I reckon you will need some wisdom from the ‘Chrome’ | han's car | 9. 9. I am a lonely window, it is quite clear to see. I look all these strangers, for food they pay a fee. I look old and dated, but I am here to stay. I listen for the door, the chimes, “herrooo” they’ll say! | SKETTY PACKED MEALS | 10. 10. You know what I miss? I miss those days when Pat would walk in and say hi, the good old days of black and white. But now look at me, I’m probably third in line for people to use. The only thing I see now are birthday cheques from grandma, last minute wedding invites and that woman who came to send her husband’s NHS bursary letter. | POST OFFICE | 11. 11. A place of modisty; of joy, an addicts haven. Somewhere where the men tend to be not quite clean shaven. Never slotting in, and always helping poor. You can find me at the bottom near the floor. | SQUARE PEG | 12. 12. A place that’s quite high up, somewhere you may pass under. I’m a thing that joins and bends and groans, but will never put asunder. | SINGLETON BRIDGE | 13. 13. Small place to clear your head, traverse herbaceous border. I saw a couple kiss, boy did he adore her. But I myself am single, alone by name you see. Natural beauty I may have, but alone forever I will be | SINGLETON BOTANICAL GARDENS | 14. 14. (51.5945629,-4.0007196) | POST BOX CLYNE DRIVE | 15. 15. Enter the park now if you dare, find the next clue and see how you fair. Your next steps should lead you to, a certain place with a tree or two. This tree may look a little odd, it resembles the image or a face of God. | TREE FACE IN CLYNE GARDENS | 16. 16. Where you rest but cannot sleep, a place so high where birds will cheep. I Hold a view that’s next to none, a romantic spot; the setting sun. | PARK BENCH VIEW | 17. 17. Pseale go to uoetsdnh cra rakp wehre you will fnid yuor nxet cule | SOUTHEND CARPARK | 18. 18. An hourglass is a timepiece with the most moving parts, what is a time piece with the least moving parts? I am 800ft away. | CLOCK ON DOCKS | 19. 19. A large sort of dinghy that’s painted with brush, I am named something strange related to thrush | ITCHY P BOAT | 20. 20. LOOK AROUND, MY NEXT CLUE IS WITHIN A 10 METRE RADIUS | NEARBY | 21. 21. Congratulation's H, you found this hidden clue! Your husband wants to tell you how much he loves you! But quick no time to stick around, you're on the final push. Find this building sharing names with Clooney, orwell and bush. | THE GEORGE | 22. 22.A place which seldom has the contents it claims to hold. This clue is a bit sneaky, hiding objects from the cold. It can also be worn by people like mike tyson, this place is probably dusty and in need of a dyson | GLOVE BOX OF HANNAH'S CAR | 23. 23. Oh Hannah my wife, you’ve done so well. This single clue left to stand here and dwell. This place now ends where it had begun, a lovely place where jumpers are spun. It looks quite ordinary to the average eye but look up and you’ll find rest in the sky. | BACK TO HOUSE IN BUNKBED |
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