QR Challenge: QR Viking Treasure Hunt

Created using the ClassTools QR Treasure Hunt Generator

Teacher Notes

A. Prior to the lesson:

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

• Download a QR reader (e.g. I-Nigma | NeoReader | Kaywa) onto their mobile devices
• Bring these devices into the lesson.

3. Print out the QR codes.

4. Cut them out and place them around your class / school.

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B. The lesson:

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!

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C. TIPS / OTHER IDEAS

4. A detailed case study in how to set up a successful QR Scavenger Hunt using this tool can be found here.

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Questions / Answers (teacher reference)

Question	Answer
1. What advantage did narrow longboats give the Vikings?	They were shallow and light to carry.
2. What kind of bird appeared on Viking flags?	Raven
3. Which countries began as three Viking kingdoms?	Denmark, Norway, and Sweden
4. When a wealthy Viking died, what was she or he placed inside before burial?	a ship
5. Which Norseman (Norwegian) discovered America?	Leif Ericsson
6. Natives in what North American land were attacked by Freydís Eiríksdóttir and her warriors?	Newfoundland
7. Viking warriors believed in Valkyries. What were they?	warrior daughters of the Viking god Odin
8. When did the Vikings begin raiding England and France?	790 A.D.
9. How many symbols are their in the Viking runic alphabet?	16
10. What Middle Eastern city traded silver with the Vikings, who prized it greatly?	Baghdad

 

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