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. If you wanted to check out a great book, where would you go? | the library | 2. 4th graders use these to get to the bottom floor and second floor. | the 4th grade stairs | 3. If you need to catch a bus home or ride MARTA, where do you go after school? | back of school | 4. Ms.Lee can help you create/draw great things here. | art room | 5. Where will you find a nutritious meal or a game of basketball? | the gym/cafeteria | 6. A place to learn new dance moves. | the dance studio | 7. If you find someone doing a good deed, where would you go to acknowledge it? | the good deed box | 8. Where can you find brass, wind and percussion instruments? | the band room | 9. 5th graders use these to get to the bottom floor and second floor. | the 5th grade stairs | 10. A place to go after lunch and hang out with friends. | the courtyard | 11. Where is north carpool? | north carpool/behind school | 12. You can only travel on this when you have an adult with you or you are using crutches. | the elevator | 13. When you need to prepare a power-point presentation using pictures and music from the Internet, where would you go to complete this assignment? | the computer lab | 14. You will use your voice here to create music. | the chorus room | 15. 6th graders use these to get to the second floor and bottom floor. | the 6th grade stairs | 16. You go here to change into your PE clothes (be really specific). | girls locker room/boys locker room | 17. Mr.Phillips, the principal, Ms.Spratlin, the assistant principal, and Ms.Washington, the school counselor, can be found here. | the office | 18. Oops. You forgot your homework. Where would you return the 'NO HOMEWORK' slip? | Coach Vandagriff's office | 19. Where would you go to play on something or to just run around? | the playground | 20. You fell during recess and hurt your arm. Where do you go to seek help? | the nurse's office | 21. You lost your school tie. Where should you look to find it? | lost and found | 22. Where is the south carpool? | south carpool/right side of school | 23. Where do you go to retrieve any make-up work, also known as a “blue sheet”? | front office desk |
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