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. Go to the Office | Say “Good Morning” to Mrs. Martin | 2. Walk quietly to where you can find interesting reads | Library | 3. Walk to the Easy fiction section of the library | One person in your group Do 3 Jumping Jacks | 4. Walk to the Nonfiction section of the library find the 600’s | Someone in your group Make the sound of your favorite animal | 5. Walk to the I Can Read section of the library | Everyone in group Sings two lines of the Happy Birthday Song | 6. Walk to the Nonfiction Section of the library and find the 700’s | Everyone Whisper “I Love Reading!” | 7. Walk to the dictionary section of the library find a unabridged dictionary | One person pat their head three times while their hand is on the book | 8. Walk to the magazine section of the library, pick a magazine, place it on the floor in front of you. | read the headline while touching your toes | 9. Walk to the circulation desk | Give Mrs. Post a high 5 and hand her your answer sheet |
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