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. In which country did Joan of Arc lead an army? | France | 2. What was the name of the second person to set foot on the moon? | Buzz Aldrin | 3. What was Muhammed Ali famous for? | Boxing | 4. Which famous passenger ship was sunk in 1915? | Lusitania | 5. What was Florence Nightingale’s job? | Nursing | 6. Which famous wall was built in 1961? | Berlin Wall | 7. Who was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean? | Amelia Earhart | 8. Who shot JFK? | Oswald | 9. Which people wrote in hieroglyphics? | Egyptians | 10. Who invented the telephone? | Bell | 11. Who was the 1st ever President of the United States of America? | George Washington | 12. What is the name of the only British female prime minister? | Margaret Thatcher | 13. Which famous ship sunk in 1912? | Titanic | 14. In what year did the first man land on the moon? | 1969 | 15. Which country was Napoleon the ruler of? | France | 16. What year did WWI break out? | 1914 | 17. What famous book did J. M. Barrie write? | Peter Pan | 18. Who wrote the book ‘Oliver Twist’? | Charles Dickens | 19. Benito Mussolini was the leader of which country? | Italy | 20. In ancient Greece, who was the king of the Gods? | Zeus | 21. On her wedding day, an Aztec bride was carried to the ceremony on the back of what? | Old woman | 22. When the Spanish arrived at the Aztec capital, what did they report seeing | A giant rack containing 136,000 skulls. | 23. | 24. Queen Elizabeth 1 was one of the first people in the Britain to have a what? | A flushing Toilet | 25. Queen Elizabeth 1 enforced an unusual tax, but what was it a tax on? | Beards | 26. What was the Tudor punishment for poisoning someone? | Being boiled alive | 27. How fast was the speed limit for early Victorian cars? | 4 MpH | 28. Tutankhamun’s mummy was found in his tomb with four special gold jars called Canopic jars, but what was in them? | stomach, lungs, liver and intestines | 29. The Egyptian God of the Dead, Anubis, had the head of an animal, but of which one? | Jackal | 30. In the summer of 1858, what happened to the River Thames in London? | It stank of poo |
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