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. This is a maths question. If you want to find the next code you will need to complete this sum. (4+7) x (2 to the power of 2) | 44 | 2. Look up and you might see something that rhymes with Tree but starts with a letter three places back from E | B | 3. You hit one of these every time you try to take a wicket | Picket | 4. When rain starts to freeze it turns to these. It starts with S and then you need to to add a Y to the end of the word | Snowy | 5. Who is the best looking person and most legendary person in this whole house? Who is the biggest legend | Mum |
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