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. What type of validation is this? | LL000000L | 2. What type of validation is used for a bar code? | check digit | 3. When you have to type your email address in twice, what type of check is this? | double entry verification | 4. Carefully reading what has been typed in and comparing it with what was on the source data is known as what? | proofreading | 5. Mistakes made by humans when keying in data from a sources are called what? | transcription errors | 6. An error that is made by a human by accidentally swapping the order or characters around is called what? | transposition | 7. If data is entered and meets all the validation criteria, it has got to be correct. True or false? | False | 8. Is the check digit correct? 4901234567896? | No. It should be 4 | 9. What type of vlidation check would find a value from a list? | lookup | 10. What type of validation would you use for a telephone number? | length check |
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