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. 1. Founded the National Women's Suffrage Association in 1869. | Susan B. Anthony | 2. 2. Black woman who refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in 1955. | Rosa Parks | 3. 3. Famous leader of nonviolent civil rights movement, murdered in 1968. | Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. | 4. 4. First black child to attend William Frantz Grade School in New Orleans, at age six. | Ruby Bridges | 5. 5. Former slave who spoke out against slavery and for women's rights. | Sojourner Truth | 6. 6. Civil rights activist and first black baseball player to play in the major leagues. | Jackie Robinson |
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