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. I am a very large space and there are two of me… | Lower Bball courts | 2. Try as you might you can’t access me until 3:30 | Bike Locker | 3. I can see you but you can’t see me | Ms Gardiner's Office window | 4. Feeling unwell? | First Aid | 5. My name consists of 7 letters and includes 3 vowels and has 4 consonants. You might say I smell good too… | Canteen | 6. Where might you go to find something you serve but cannot eat? | The Gym | 7. I have keys but I do not open any doors | Computer Lab (i) | 8. I wave all day but never tire, at the end of the day I retire | The Flag | 9. I never get wet and my net doesn’t hold anything | Undercover Bball court | 10. I have 88 keys but cannot open a single door.What am I? | A Piano (Performing Arts) | 11. You might visit me at recess and lunch time | VCAL lockers | 12. I go up and down but never move | Outside stairs to library | 13. Plug but no bath. Ink but no pen. Paper but no news. Cable but no TV | Printer in Library | 14. I have a spine but no bones. Inside me the adventurous find Quests and treasures of every kind | Quest book section | 15. it has 4 legs but does not run | Table in library | 16. Something you look out to spy, to watch birds or cars going by, they might be low, they might be high | Window to JG office | 17. People knock on me to say hello but lock me up after their visitors go | Library Door | 18. I have a ring but no fingers I used to stay still but nowadays I follow you around | Speaker in IT | 19. It's been a long day, I'm about to burst, rush to this to quench one's thirst | Drinking taps near senior | 20. This grade is half of 2+2? | Grade 3 area | 21. You can jump on me, over me and sit or stand on me. What am i? | Bench in open grassed space | 22. Which Company makes billions of dollars selling Windows | jLab | 23. A princess most fair ate a single bite of this. Will she be awakened by a Charming kiss? | MacLab | 24. This is a place you can hoop and hollar but if you want one in your home, you may have to pay top dollar | Gym |
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