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. What is the title of the book in our Media Center with the Dewey # 799.96 Ro | Blades of Glory | 2. What is the title of the book in our Media Center with the Dewy #338.7 Ham | Google: The company and its founders | 3. Log in to the Mackin VIA App on your iPad using you network login. Who is the author of the eBook: The robotics club: teaming up to build robots? | Therese Shea | 4. Who founded the company named for the man who invented vulcanized rubber? | Frank Seiberling | 5. What’s the southernmost province of the country that occupies approximately one sixth of the Iberian Peninsula? | Algarbe | 6. Who was the FIRST baseball commentator to say 'Holy Cow' during a baseball broadcast? | Minnesotan Halsey Hall | 7. Minneapolis’ famed skyway system connects how many blocks downtown making it possible to live, eat, work and shop without going outside. | 69 Blocks | 8. Where were Tonka Trucks developed and continue to be manufactured? | Minnetonka, MN | 9. What is the largest number you can get from using just two digits? | 9 raised to the 9th power. 9^9 = 387,420,489 | 10. What is the value of 1/2 of 2/3 of 3/4 of 4/5 of 5/6 of 6/7 of 7/8 of 8/9 of 9/10 of 1000 | 100 | 11. Two fathers and two sons sat down to eat eggs for breakfast. They ate exactly three eggs, each person had an egg. Can you explain this? | There are only 3 people. One person is both a father AND a son | 12. The actress who plays the cheerleader coach, Sue, in the musical comedy drama on Fox also played a mom in a 1991 theater production based on what TV series? | The Brady Bunch | 13. What notable river was close by the campaign in which Lee defeated the much larger army led by Major General Joseph Hooker? | Rappahannock River | 14. Of the five NASA space shuttles, which one flew the most missions? | Discovery | 15. The youngest recipient of the NBA MVP award joined which one of his “Bulls” teammates in receiving this honor? | Michael Jordan | 16. What renowned children's book set around the love for the first African-American to play major league baseball, starts with the line "The St. George Hotel?"? | Thank You, Jackie Robinson by Barbara Cohen |
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