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. How many teeth did T. rex have (and how big were they)? | T-rex's had over 60 thick, conical, bone-crunching teeth that were up to 23 cm long. Its jaws were up to 1.2 m long. | 2. What was the biggest dinosaur? | The biggest dinosaurs were sauropods; they were gigantic, slow-moving, with very long necks and tiny headed. | 3. What is the largest and smallest planet in the Solar System? | Jupiter and Mercury | 4. What planet is closest to the Sun? | Mercury | 5. How much time does sun rays take to reach earth? | 8 minutes | 6. Who was the first person to reach space? | Yuri Gagarin, in 1961. | 7. Which one is the world’s largest and most diverse continent? | Asia ; It covers one-third of earth’s surface. Asia is most populous continent. | 8. What is the highest mountain in the world? | Mount Everest | 9. What is the longest river in the world? | Nile | 10. What is the bigest desert in the world? | Sahara | 11. Which is the oldest University in the USA? | Harvard (founded 1636) | 12. In which year did the Titanic sink? | 1912 |
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