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.
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1. The circulation desk is where you go to check out books from the librarian Look for the caution sign at the circulation desk and scan the QR code clue. List my name for #1. | 2. Fiction stories are stories that are made up. True or False Look for the fiction QR code clue somewhere in the "B" Fiction section. Fiction books are organized by the Author's first or last name?2 | 3. Look through the fiction section, and find the name of one author whose LAST NAME starts will the same letter as yours Have your partner/team do the same. Tap the book when you find them and check off.4 | 4. Science Fiction, Mystery, & Adventure stories are a type of genre in literature. Look for the Horror QR code clue in fiction near the "S"! Who writes the Cirque Du Freak Series?5 | 5. Find a book to help you cook-anything with BEEF! Look for the Cookbook QR code clue in Nonfiction!6 | 6. Have you ever heard of a big book of words? Or Dictionary? Look in the BIG UNABRIDGED dictionary over by the copy room, on a stand to define the word taco! Look for the yummy QR code clue somewhere near the dictionary!7 | 7. Using your Ground Beef Cookbook- Look in the Index for Taco Salad- a recipe for Taco Salad can be found on pages ___________.8 | 8. Look for the QR code clue where we return books at the circulation desk, what does it say?9 | 9. Using a Mac computer what year did the Titanic sink? And how many smokestacks did the ship have? Look for the Titanic QR code clue somewhere nearby the projector.10 | 10. Using the Online Public Access Catalog computer- type in the subject Titanic- How many items do we have on the subject Titanic?11 | 11. Scan the Patrick Carmen QR code clue near the PAC computer. Then use our Online Public Access Catalog computer- Do we own the book shown in the clue written by Patrick Carmen?12 | 12. Where are the magazines? Find the magazine with a QR code clue next to it. Write down the name of the magazine title.13 |
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