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. As to what 2D shape is France sometimes referred? | L'hexagone | 2. Who was the king of France for just 20 minutes, the shortest reign ever - a record shared with Crown Prince Luis Filipe of Portugal, who also ruled for just 20 minutes? | Louis XIX | 3. What is the national motto of France? | Liberté, égalité, fraternité | 4. If you wish to carry live snails on a high-speed train in France, you would need to buy them their own what? | Ticket | 5. What were the French Army the first to use in 1915, involving artists painting guns and vehicles? | Camouflage | 6. Who developed a famous reading and writing system for the blind? | Louis Braille | 7. France was the first country in the world to ban supermarkets from throwing away or destroying unsold food, since which month in 2016? | February | 8. What is the name of Europe's highest mountain, located in the French Alps and standing 4810 metres high? | Mont Blanc | 9. What is the name of 2014's most visited museum in the world? | The Louvre Museum | 10. What kind of transplant were French surgeons the first to perform in 2005? | Face | 11. France was one of the world's first countries to utilise high-speed technology, introducing this high-speed rail in 1981. | TGV | 12. What is Europe's busiest railway station? | Paris Gare du Nord | 13. In which city in 2014 did Sotheby's set a world record by selling a 114-bottle lot of DCR Romanee-Conti wines for more than 1.45 million euros? | Hong Kong | 14. The Tour de France covers around 3200 kilometres in a series of stages over how many days? | 23 | 15. What might someone stick on your back on April Fool's Day? | A fish | 16. I leave Paris and follow the A6A, E5, A6, A7 for 775 kilometres. Which city is my destination? | Marseille |
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