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. Go out of the academy and turn right. At the next junction there is a supermarket. Go inside and ask politely to take a photo of a drink that comes from a cow. The shop assistant has your next code. | Covimira – milk | 2. Go straight on with the sea on your right and cross the road at the zebra crossing in front of Vitamín. About 10m further on there is a park. Take a photo of something that children can sit on. It goes back and forward and back and forward and back and forward… and sometimes very high! | Park – swings | 3. When you leave the park go left towards the small beach. Take a photo of something that people use to protect themselves from the sun. | Beach umbrella | 4. Opposite the beach there is a road that leads up towards the main road. Go up here. At the top you need to take a photo of a small animal that has fur and long ears. It likes to eat carrots. It must be alive! | hamster - Animalandia | 5. Leaving the shop turn right and walk down the road towards the plaza (or what’s left of it!). Turn right at the plaza and walk up the road past the church. On the right you will see something that can be used to help you see better. You need a photo of it. | Glasses - optician | 6. Go up the road towards the the roundabout. As you arrive at the roundabout you need to take a photo of a Canarian Flag. | Canarian Flag - Chinese | 7. Walk around the roundabout past the baker’s. Take a photo of a pair of Desigual shoes. | Desigual shoes – Outlet | 8. Turn left and walk down the road. You will see a hardware store. Ask politely if you can take a photo. You need a photo of something that can cook meat. | BBQ - Ferretería playa | 9. When you leave the hardware store you need to go down Calle Marejada. Take the third road on your left. Go straight on to the end of this road and turn left. Take a photo of a place where a King or Queen might live. | Castle - Reginella | 10. Go straight on. At the second junction on your right take a photo of something sweet, cold and delicious in summer. | ice-cream - opera | 11. A little further up the road there is a turning to your right. On this junction you need to find a real chicken and take a photo of it. It can be dead or alive. | Fresh chicken from the Carnicería | 12. Turn right. Keep the sea on your right. When you arrive at the park for old people you will see a man running through a wall. Take a photo of him. | Man running through a wall | 13. Go straight on with the sea on your right. Just before the parking you need to take a photo of an animal that is famous in Spain. | Bull | 14. Go straight on with the sea on your right. Just after the bus stop, at the next junction, you need to take a photo of an animal that has scales and fins and you can find in the sea. It is often eaten with chips in England. | fish | 15. Find an English tourist. Find out where they are from. Ask politely if you can have a photo with them and then return to the Academy!!! | tourist |
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