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. Shakespeare was baptized on April 26, 1564, and scholars believe that, in keeping with the traditions of the time, he would have been baptized when he was three days old, meaning Shakespeare was probably born on April 23, 1564 in Stratford Upon Avon. (Hint: To find out what happened to traitors, you would look in this book.) | 1 | 2. John and Mary Shakespeare (Hint: Using this to find a country is also the name of the theater Shakespeare’s plays were performed in.) | 2 | 3. 7 siblings-Joan (only lived 2 months), Margaret, Gilbert, Joan, Anne, Richard, Edmund (Hint: They should have had this in Shakespeare’s time to ward off illness.) | 3 | 4. William Arden, was arrested for plotting against Queen Elizabeth I, imprisoned in the Tower of London and executed. (Hint: The next clue will be found in the play named after his son.) | 4 | 5. Anne Hathaway; 3 children: Hamnet, Susanna, and Judith (Hint: This game was made after the monarchy.) | 5 | 6. Shakespeare’s burial at Holy Trinity Church in Stratford Upon Avon is documented as happening on April 25, 1616. In keeping with traditions of the time it’s likely he would have been buried two days after his death, meaning Shakespeare likely died April 23, 1616 – his 52nd birthday (Hint: When an English teacher asks you to read a Shakespeare play, you should look in this textbook) | 6 | 7. 37 plays and 154 sonnets (Hint: This is where people during the Elizabethan times pooped.) | 7 | 8. The Elizabethan Age of the Renaissance (The rule of Queen Elizabeth) (Hint: The flag of where Shakespeare is from.) | 8 | 9. The Comedy of Errors (Hint: Families only had one or two of these in their houses.) | 9 | 10. It was illegal for women and girls to perform in the theatre in Shakespeare’s lifetime so all the female parts were written for and played by boys. (Hint: The flag of the country where Romeo & Juliet took place) | 10 | 11. The Black Plague (Hint: This is what historians compare the actors’ makeup to) | 11 | 12. The Globe Theatre (Hint: This is where the Groundlings stood.) | 12 | 13. The Lord Chamberlain's Men, later known as The King’s Men after Queen Elizabeth’s death in 1603 (Hint: This type of person wasn’t allowed to act in Shakespeare plays) | 13 | 14. Hamlet at 4,042 lines, totalling 29,551 words (Hint: This represents the number of people who would be watching the newlyweds on their wedding night. | 14 | 15. Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies (Hint: This is how many times people in the Elizabethan age bathed.) | 15 | 16. The Tudor’s beginning with King Henry VIII and ending with Queen Elizabeth I (Hint: This is where the Queen would sit. | 16 | 17. Created a new church when Catholicism would not allow him to divorce his first wife; Divorced his first wife when she would not deliver him a male heir to the throne; Married his mistress, Anne Boleyn (mother to Queen Elizabeth I) in secret and publicly beheaded her at the Tower of London when she could not give him a male heir; Was finally granted a son in his third marriage to Jane Seymour who died in childbirth; Was married 3 more times 2 of which ended in divorce. (Hint: This is what women would use to apply “blush”.) | 17 | 18. Mary, Elizabeth, and Edward (Hint: An invention that wouldn’t come fast enough for this time period.) | 18 | 19. The Bard (Hint: What the beds were made of.) | 19 | 20. Over 1700 words (Hint: The heads of these were used to represent decapitated heads in Shakespeare’s Plays.) | 20 |
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