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. This way, you don't have to go through the redundant process of typing in the internet address each time you visit one of your favorite sites | Bookmark | 2. A word, phrase, or image that you can click on to jump to a new document or a new section within the current document | Hyperlink | 3. Some common browsers are Microsoft Internet Explorer, Netscape Communicator, and Apple Safari | Browsers | 4. A user may "tag" pictures or text files with keywords that are relevant to their content. Later on, these files may be searched using keywords, which can make finding files much easier | Keywords | 5. A presentation involving audio and video clips | Multimedia | 6. Information processed or stored by a computer | Data | 7. The process in which data is sent to your computer | Download | 8. Represents an object or a program on your hard drive | Icon | 9. The value used when a setting has not been specified by the user | Default | 10. A computer desktop icon that enables a user to easily see and select a particular program or data object | Shortcut | 11. The page layout or style of text in a word processing document | Format | 12. The process of finding the source of a problem | Troubleshoot | 13. A computer software package used to display multimedia information, normally in the form of a slide show | Presentation | 14. Where your writing cursor is | Insertion Point | 15. The mouse button used to open contextual menus that change depending where you click. | Right Click | 16. A document that stores data in a grid of horizontal rows and vertical columns. | Spreadsheet | 17. A web site designed to help users find other sites on the web through search words. | Search Engine | 18. A file that is pre-formatted in some way that guides the user to enter the correct information | Template | 19. In order to connect to the Internet, you need an ISP. It is the company that you (or your parents) pay a monthly fee to in order to use the Internet. | Internet Service Provider | 20. Prepare work for publication by correcting, condensing, or otherwise modifying it. | Edit |
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