QR Challenge: Technology Riddles Scavenger Hunt
Teacher Notes
A. Prior to the lesson:
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
- Download a QR reader (e.g. I-Nigma | NeoReader | Kaywa) onto their mobile devices
- Bring these devices into the lesson.
3. Print out the QR codes.
4. Cut them out and place them around your class / school.
B. The lesson:
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!
C. TIPS / OTHER IDEAS
4. A detailed case study in how to set up a successful QR Scavenger Hunt using this tool can be found here.
Questions / Answers (teacher reference)
Question | Answer |
| 1. 1. Why did the computer go to the doctor? Look for the answer where you turn in books! | It had a virus
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2. 2. What is an astronaut's favorite key on the keyboard? Look for the answer on the library rules | The space key
| 3. 3. How do you know if your computer is getting old? Look for the answer on the cart in the Fiction Section | It keeps losing its memory.
| 4. 4. Why was the computer cold? Look for the answer by the magazines | It left its windows open!
| 5. 5. How does a tree get into its computer? Look for the answer by the author's last name that starts with a W | It has to LOG-in
| 6. 6. Why did the boy put his laptop in the oven? Look for the answer by nonfiction books about dinosaurs | Because he wanted to make apple pie
| 7. 7. What do you get when you cross a computer and a lifeguard? Look for the answer in a soft spot to sit | A screen saver!
| 8. 8. What did the spider do on the computer? Look for the answer in the kiva | Made a website
| 9. 1. It had a virus | answers to all
| 10. 2. The space key | answers to all
| 11. 3. It keeps losing its memory. | answers to all
| 12. 4. It left its windows open! | answers to all
| 13. 5. It has to LOG-in | answers to all
| 14. 6. Because he wanted to make apple pie | answers to all
| 15. 7. A screeb saver! | answers to all
| 16. 8. Made a website! | answers to all |
Technology Riddles Scavenger Hunt: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=1._Why_did_the_computer_go_to_the_doctor?_Look_for_the_answer_where_you_turn_in_books!
Question 1 (of 16)
Technology Riddles Scavenger Hunt: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=2._What_is_an_astronaut's_favorite_key_on_the_keyboard?_Look_for_the_answer_on_the_library_rules
Question 2 (of 16)
Technology Riddles Scavenger Hunt: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=3._How_do_you_know_if_your_computer_is_getting_old?_Look_for_the_answer_on_the_cart_in_the_Fiction_Section
Question 3 (of 16)
Technology Riddles Scavenger Hunt: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=4._Why_was_the_computer_cold?_Look_for_the_answer_by_the_magazines
Question 4 (of 16)
Technology Riddles Scavenger Hunt: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=5._How_does_a_tree_get_into_its_computer?_Look_for_the_answer_by_the_author's_last_name_that_starts_with_a_W
Question 5 (of 16)
Technology Riddles Scavenger Hunt: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=6._Why_did_the_boy_put_his_laptop_in_the_oven?_Look_for_the_answer_by_nonfiction_books_about_dinosaurs
Question 6 (of 16)
Technology Riddles Scavenger Hunt: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=7._What_do_you_get_when_you_cross_a_computer_and_a_lifeguard?_Look_for_the_answer_in_a_soft_spot_to_sit
Question 7 (of 16)
Technology Riddles Scavenger Hunt: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=8._What_did_the_spider_do_on_the_computer?_Look_for_the_answer_in_the_kiva
Question 8 (of 16)
Technology Riddles Scavenger Hunt: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=1._It_had_a_virus
Question 9 (of 16)
Technology Riddles Scavenger Hunt: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=2._The_space_key
Question 10 (of 16)
Technology Riddles Scavenger Hunt: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=3._It_keeps_losing_its_memory.
Question 11 (of 16)
Technology Riddles Scavenger Hunt: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=4._It_left_its_windows_open!
Question 12 (of 16)
Technology Riddles Scavenger Hunt: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=5._It_has_to_LOG-in
Question 13 (of 16)
Technology Riddles Scavenger Hunt: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=6._Because_he_wanted_to_make_apple_pie
Question 14 (of 16)
Technology Riddles Scavenger Hunt: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=7._A_screeb_saver!
Question 15 (of 16)
Technology Riddles Scavenger Hunt: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=8._Made_a_website!
Question 16 (of 16)
