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. Nicola Tesla - AC or DC? | AC | 2. Name the most important British female fossil collector. | Mary Anning | 3. He was a war hero and the dressmaker for the Queen. | Hardy Amies | 4. What was the name of the American politician who fought for gay rights? | Harvey Milk | 5. Name the American actor and filmmaker from the Silent Movies. | Buster Keaton | 6. Nicolas Steno was born in ...? | Copenhagen | 7. Ada ---- is one of the first computer programmer. | Lovelace | 8. What is Rose Valland famous for? | Helped tracking lost art after WW2 | 9. Alan Turing cracked which code machine? | Enigma | 10. Name the black American who fought for equal rights 200 years ago. | Frederic Douglass | 11. Who took the credit when Rosalind Franklin discovered the molecular structures of DNA? | two men | 12. Raoul Wallenberg flew around the World in a balloon. | False | 13. She stood up against The Taleban. | Malala Yousafzai | 14. Alice Catherine Evans discovered a safe passage to India? | False | 15. Emmeline Pankhurst was a leader of the British suffragette movement? | True | 16. Who went round the globe and launched a new kind of investigative journalism? | Nellie Bly | 17. He is known as a great and merciful Arabic leader. | Saladin | 18. Who was there before Marco Polo? | Rabban Bar Sauma | 19. Who smuggled approximately 2,500 Jewish children out of the Warsaw Ghetto? | Irena Sendler | 20. Who invented the three-point safety belt while working at Volvo? | Nils Bohlin | 21. Witold Pilecki was a scientist who became priest. | False | 22. Carsten Niebuhr embrased the arabic culture. | True | 23. Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz tipped off the Danes about the German's intended deportation of the Jewish population in 1943. | True | 24. He is the man behind Virgin. | Richard Branson | 25. Oskar Schindler tipped off the Danes about the German's intended deportation of the Jewish population in 1943. | False | 26. This man was an English politician, philanthropist, and a leader of the movement to stop the slave trade. | William Wilberforce | 27. This man was a children's rights advocate in Denmark. | Peter Sabroe | 28. Best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web? | Tim Berners-Lee |
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