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. How many bones in the human body?Write down the answer then go to where you might do chin ups | 206 | 2. Explain in EXACTLY 20 words, how the heart and lungs work together? Write the answer then go to where there might be a hurricane | 20 words heart / lungs | 3. Name the three teeny bones in your ear? Go to target practice | hammer, stirrup and anvil. | 4. Name four places where you can feel your pulse? The next question is where you might order something yummy to eat | four places for pulse. | 5. Run to Mrs Lloyd and perform 20 good burpees each | 20 burpees and give code | 6. Guess the word _H_L_NG__. What is these things? Write the answer then go to where we store water at school | Phalanges. | 7. Give the "proper" word for the following parts - collarbone, big hip bone, wrist bones, kneecap. Write them down and then run to the school sign | clavicle, illium, carpals, patella, | 8. What muscle might you pull if you kick a soccerball too high? Write it down and go to what might make you walk taller. | hamstrings | 9. What muscles are you working in your chest when you do a pressup? Show Mrs Lloyd 15 great pressups each | Pressups then code. | 10. Name 15 bones in your body then look in the three things that might be off a tractor | 15 bones then tractor tyres | 11. Two laps of the bike track in a piggy back. You can stop and switch when you need to. (yes, I know it's going to be tricky!) Write down three muscles that are tired at the end then run to a grassy area that Mr Cronin might be able to see | two laps piggy back then grass by KC office. | 12. 20 words exactly on how a bone heals then "run run run run run leap!" be careful of the wood | 20 words on bone healing then long jump pit. | 13. What are the three types on muscle in your body? Now find the blue recyling bins | smooth, cardiac, skeletal | 14. What are alveoli? write it down and then find stairs that lead to a red/maroon door. Look under these steps | alveoli - what are they? Hall steps | 15. Put these items in order from least to most sugar -CAN OF COKE, ONE ORANGE, A PEANUT BUTTER AND JAM WHITE BREAD SANDWICH, BANANA, ONE SNICKERS BAR, A POTTLE OF STRAWBERRY YOPLAIT YOGHURT. Write your answers then look on the window of room 1 | banana, sandwich, orange, yoghurt, snickers bar, coke. (room 1) | 16. Where is your gastrocnemius? now run to a green wall | in your calf (green wall) | 17. What are the bones in your spine called and how many are there? Now find Mrs Lloyd's office door | 33 vertebrae (my office door) |
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