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. Who wrote the book, “An Abundance of Katherines?” Find the book to locate the next question | John Green | 2. Name the man who holds the 2012 World record for body piercings and the number of piercings he has? Find the book to locate the next question | Rolf Buchholz 453 studs. | 3. The Maze Runner by James Dashner.Chapter 1, pg 3, 12th line down, 5th word. Find the book to locate the next question | klunk | 4. What electronic database does the Library subscribe to that you can create a bibliography,(or works cited page)? | Noodlebib | 5. Books about ancient Greece are in the 938 section.Become an “Eyewitness”(hint)in history…Who was the Greek God of fire? Find the book to locate the next question | Hephaistos |
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