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. Look at the picture on page 45. What do you predict is happening in this picture? | Students’ own predictions | 2. 2. Look at the picture on page 49. What do you think is happening? | Students’ own predictions | 3. 3. How did Cam find out the short boy’s name? What is his name? | Cam smeared cake icing over the stitched name. His name was Brian. | 4. 4. Why did Mr Shelton get out his wallet? | To pay for the cleaning bill for Brian’s jacket. | 5. 5. What made Brian scared and run out of the cafeteria? | The guards and the assistants were alerted to the shouting. They came over and this scared Brian. | 6. 6. Why can’t anyone stop Brian? | Governor Zellner can’t stop Brian just because Cam ‘thinks’ that he has something to do with the missing basketball. | 7. 7. What is the play on words that Danny uses on page 48? | Buster Danny – he is ‘busting’ all of the balloons. | 8. 8. How does Danny popping all the balloons help Cam? | She thinks that the basketball has been popped and deflated for easy removal. |
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