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. What is the Commonwealth? | Intergovernmental organisation |
2. What percentage of the worlds population are part of the Commonwealth? | 30 |
3. True or false The Commonwealth is ruled by Britain | false |
4. True or false Half of the people who live in the commonwealth are under 25 | True |
5. How long has the USA been part of the Commonwealth? | it isn't |
6. When the Commonwealth want to reach a decision how do they do it? | reach an agreement |
7. When might a country be thrown out of the Commonwealth? | you cant be thrown out of the Commonwealth |
8. True or False There is a Commonwealth country in every continent of the world | true |
9. Where do all countries in the commonwealth have to display the queens head? | no where |
10. What year did the Commonwealth games start? | 1930 |
11. The Motto of the Commonwealth games is Humanity, equality, destiny, find three similar words from our school values in the heartspace | various |
12. What three features of this landscape would you most like to remove or change and why? | open |
13. Find a place where, if you were homeless, you might attempt to stay the night. | open |
14. Imagine you have been blindfolded and dumped in this place. What clues in the landscape would tell you which country you are in and which region of that country you are in? | open |
15. How might the view in front of you have looked:a)10,000 years ago b)100 years ago c)10 years ago | open |
16. What possible sources of pollution can you identify in this landscape? | various |
17. Suggest two ways in which people have improved this landscape, and two ways in which they have made it worse | open |
18. What could be changed to improve this place | open |
19. Choose five words which describe this place | 5 words |
20. Can you describe the smell of this area? Try to find something that smells nice | open |
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