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. Which is the highest volcano? | Ojos del Salado | 2. Which is the longest river? | Nile (6,853km) | 3. Which is the smallest volcano? | Taal (311m) | 4. Which rivers are less than 500km long? | Thames, Severn | 5. How many rivers flow through 6 different countries? | 3 – Rhine, Congo and Amazon | 6. Which river is longer: the River Ganges or the Murray River? | Ganges (2525km) | 7. Which volcano is higher: Mount Loa or Mount Rainier? | Mount Rainier | 8. Put the following rivers in order from the shortest to the longest: Rhine, Mississippi, Loire, Volga. | Loire, Rhine, Volga, Mississippi | 9. Put the following volcanoes in order from the highest to the lowest: Vesuvius, Katla, Kilauea, Pinatobu. | Katla, Pinatobu, Kilauea, Vesuvius | 10. How many volcanoes are approximately 3000m high (rounded to the nearest 1000 metres)? Which ones are they? | 4:Mount St Helens, Mount Tambora, Mount Merapi, Mount Etna | 11. Which rivers are approximately 3500m long? | River Volga, Mississippi River | 12. Which two volcanoes have a total height of 7500m? | Etna and Loa | 13. Which two rivers have a total length of 700m? | Thames and Severn | 14. Which volcano is 926m taller than Mount Tambora? | Mount Fuji | 15. How much higher is Mount Etna than Mount Merapi? | 362m | 16. How much longer is the River Yangtze than the Congo River? | 1600m | 17. How much shorter is Mount Pinatobu after the 1991 eruption? | 259m | 18. Which volcano is 301m shorter than Mount Tambora? | Mount St Helens | 19. Which two rivers have a difference in length of 400km? | Nile and Amazon | 20. What is the average height of all of the volcanoes in Italy? | 1845m | 21. On average how many countries do the rivers flow through? | 2.75 | 22. Which river is approximately twice as long as the Rhine? | Murray River (2508km) | 23. Which river is roughly 10 times smaller than the River Volga? | River Severn | 24. If a football pitch is 112m long, which river is almost the same length as 1000 football pitches? | Tyne (118km) | 25. How long is the River Thames in miles? | 214.52miles |
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