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. Record the measurements of the basketball at the top of the stairs in the wrestling room. | basketball | 2. Record the measurements of the coffee mug in the old lunch room by the water fountain.2 | Coffee Mug | 3. Record the measurements of the globe ball near the entrance by the high school office.3 | globe ball | 4. Record the measurements of the coffee mug in Lab 124 by the closet.4 | Coffee Mug | 5. Record the measurements of the Pi Clock in the 7th Grade Common Area near the TV.5 | Pi Clock | 6. Record the measurements of the Pi Sign outside the bathrooms near the STEM Lab and Ag Tech room.6 | Pi Sign | 7. Record the measurements of the bottom of the pencil cup near the staff workroom in the new lunch area.7 | pencil cup | 8. Record the measurements of the bottom of the water bottle outside the new gym entrance on the elementary side of the new lunch room.8 | water bottle |
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