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. Peter is a father. All fathers are potatoes. Therefore Peter is a potato. This is an example of what type of argument? | Valid | 2. Argument against direct realism, suggesting we don't perceive the world accurately, eg because a straight pen in water looks bent | Argument from illusion | 3. Believing that you are the only person in existence who has a mind is known as what? | Solipsism | 4. Realist theory of perception which states the world is exactly as we perceive it to be | Direct realism | 5. Peter is a father. All fathers are men. Therefore Peter is a man. This is an example of what type of argument? | Sound | 6. According to Locke, what type of qualities vary according to the perceiver’s senses, such as sound, taste and smell? | Secondary qualities | 7. Argument against direct realism, suggesting we don't perceive the world accurately, because a drunk person, a sick person and a well person all perceive the same object differently | Argument from perceptual variation | 8. The best explanation is the simplest one which uses the fewest assumptions, or reliance on unproven theories | Ockham's razor | 9. Another name for indirect realism | Representative realism | 10. Argument against direct realism, suggesting we don't perceive the world accurately, because it takes time for light to reach our eyes, especially from distant stars, so we see into the past | Time lag argument | 11. Doubting your senses, and/or the existence of the external world is known as what? | Scepticism | 12. According to Locke, what type of qualities are the same, regardless of the perceiver’s senses, such as location, size and shape? | Primary qualities | 13. Realist theory that although objects exist in the external world, we can’t perceive them directly or completely accurately | Indirect realism | 14. Peter is a father. All dogs are animals. Therefore, Peter is a dog. This is an example of what type of argument? | Invalid | 15. Another name for direct realism | Naïve realism |
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