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. Why did women lose their jobs when the war was over? | more men came back to get their jobs. | 2. 2. What is the GI Bills of Rights? | a law passed by the U.S. Congress in 1944 which helped veterans financilly to attend collage. | 3. 3. Did President Roosevelt barely beat Herbert Hoover in the election of 1932? | no. | 4. 4. What did engineers do to make sure gases and liquids safely reached their destinations and kept tankers from being attacked by German submarines in the Galf of Mexico? | made underground pipes. | 5. 5. Who was Ross Sterling? | A governor of an oil businessman. |
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