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. top-level domain reserved for the business community | .biz | 2. unrestricted top-level domain used by the commercial community | .com | 3. top-level domain reserved for the education community | .edu | 4. top-level domain reserved for the government community | .gov | 5. unrestricted top-level domain for information | .info | 6. top-level domain reserved for the United States Department of Defense | .mil | 7. top-level domain dedicated to delivering the internet to mobile phones | .mob | 8. unrestricted top-level domain for the internet | .net | 9. unrestricted top-level domain used by non-profit organizations | .org | 10. descriptive text set to appear in place of an image | Alternative text | 11. Internet URL selected and name registered by an individual | Domain | 12. web page allows you to enter data to be sent back to the web server | Forms | 13. the top level or entry page of a website | Home page or Index page | 14. invisible region on an image that contains a hyperlink | Hot spot | 15. navigation button that changes when the mouse is positioned over it | Hover | 16. the predominant language used to create web pages | HTML | 17. connection from one page to another or from one site to another | Hyperlink | 18. region on a web page that contains one or more hot spots | Image map | 19. language used to add special effects to a website | JavaScript | 20. the organizational structure of a website | Navigational map | 21. top of web page that displays a graphic element/text/title | Page banner | 22. software modules integrated in a browser to offer interactivity | Plug-in | 23. sending web pages to a server so they are made available on WWWeb | Publishing | 24. list of the pages in a website; also referred to as a site index | Site map | 25. pre-designed formats for text/graphics on which new pages are based. | Template | 26. miniature representations of a picture | Thumbnails | 27. providing space on Internet servers for use of the WWWeb | Web hosting | 28. 216 colors that appear consistently across computers | Web-safe colors |
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