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. 1.Who is the father of the California missions? | Father Serra | 2. 2. What are the three main kind of rock types? | Igneous, Sedimentary, and metamorphic. | 3. 3. Where do you nourish your body( skip to find the answer slip)? | red slip | 4. 4. What is 30,000 - 1,987? | 28,013 | 5. 5.Who was the bandit in Thunder on the Sierra? | Joaquin Murieta | 6. 6. What is a healthier snack, a piece of fruit or chips? | fruit | 7. 7. How do you round 2, 569 to the closest tens place? | 2,570 | 8. 8. Who is the trapper and trail blazer that visited our class? | Jedediah Smith Strong | 9. 9. How do you get your heart beating( run to the McCoy gate)? | yellow ribbon | 10. 10. What do you call a word that uses like or as to compare to things? | simile | 11. 11. What are the four main geographical regions of California? | mountains, desert, coast, Central Valley | 12. 12.Which Native American tribe lived in the desert? | Mojave | 13. 13.Where do the monkeys go to play? | jungle gym (blue slips) | 14. 14. What was the first mission built in California? | Mission San Diego | 15. 15. How do you divide 6,485 by 5? | 1,297 | 16. 16. Who found the gold nugget that started the CA gold rush? | James Marshall |
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