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. The Pacific Ocean | What defines the Oceania as a region? | 2. Man-Made borders | The individual states of Australia are divided primarily by what? | 3. Primary activity | What type of economic activity is found most in Papua New Guinea? | 4. New Zealand | Which country makes up the greater percentage of indigenous people, New Zealand or Australia? | 5. Urban areas are Culturally connected to rural areas. | How does urban life in New Zealand compare to rural areas? | 6. Maori people have maintained their traditional ways. | How does Maori people compare to Aborigines in their cultural ways? | 7. Most of the indigenous languages spoken across Oceania are highly related | How are indigenous languages compared across Oceania? | 8. Careful government management of the industry | The Tahitian Pearl Industry requires what activity by the government in order to improve and expand the industry? | 9. Micronesia, Polynesia, and Melanesia | What are the 3 islands that are grouped based on culture and location? | 10. Hunter-gatherers | What type of land use did the Indigenous Australians do? | 11. Pushed many original settlements from the coast to the interior. | What effect did an increase in European population have among Australia? | 12. The government did not regulate strongly enough and allowed overproduction. | The French Polynesian government failed at what policies? | 13. Building a highway across the Outback in Australia. | How would you increase economic opportunities in Australia? | 14. Arid climate | What type of climate dominates Australia’s outback region? | 15. Interior farmlands are large portions of dry, rugged terrain | What type of farmland is found in Australia? | 16. Converted rural area lands to agriculture and ranching | What did the European colonists introduce in land-use when they arrived in Australia? | 17. Perceptual region | What type of region is the Australian Outback recognized as? | 18. Southeast Asia and sailed to Australia and the islands across Oceania | The original population of settlers for Australia and Oceania arrived from where? | 19. New Zealand | Which country makes up the greater percentage of indigenous people, New Zealand or Australia? |
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