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. From the story of Snow White, how many of the dwarf's names end in "y"? | 5 | 2. How many sides does a trapezoid have? | 4 | 3. What comes next in the pattern, ABCCABCCABC? | C | 4. What is the 12th letter of the alphabet? | L | 5. How many months have 28 days? | 12 | 6. What is 15-8? | 7 | 7. What digit is in the hundred-thousandths place of pi? | 9 | 8. How many outs are there at the end of 6 innings of baseball? | 36 | 9. How many degrees are there between water boiling and freezing (F)? | 180 | 10. How many vertices are in a rectangular prism? | 8 | 11. What is the total of all the prime numbers less than 20? | 77 | 12. What is the square root of 81? | 9 | 13. How many seconds are in 24 hours? | 86,400 | 14. What percent of the letters in the word "Math Is Cool" are vowels? | 40% | 15. Using the set of natural numbers, what is the first number that has an "a" in it? | 1,000 | 16. What is the number of quarts in a gallon times the number of days in the month of November? | 120 | 17. If you bisect an angle of an equilateral triangle, how many degrees are in each of the new angles? | 30 | 18. What number does the Roman Numerals MMXIV stand for? | 2014 | 19. What 4 letter word, when written in capital letters, is the same forward, backwards, and upside down? | NOON | 20. If you were running in a race and you passed the person in 2nd place, what place would you now be in? | 2nd | 21. What 3 numbers have the same answer when added together & multiplied together? | 1,2,3 | 22. What happens twice in a week, once in a year, but never in a day? | the letter e | 23. What is half of 2 + 2? | 3 | 24. Brothers and sisters, I have none but this man's father is my father's son. Who is the man? | My son | 25. If one child has 5 1/2 sand piles and the other child has 3 2/3 sand piles and they combine them, how many sand piles do they have? | 1 |
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