QR Challenge: Break the code! Doing Dewey (Decimal, that is).

Created using the ClassTools QR Treasure Hunt Generator

Teacher Notes

A. Prior to the lesson:

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

• Download a QR reader (e.g. I-Nigma | NeoReader | Kaywa) onto their mobile devices
• Bring these devices into the lesson.

3. Print out the QR codes.

4. Cut them out and place them around your class / school.

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B. The lesson:

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!

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C. TIPS / OTHER IDEAS

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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Questions / Answers (teacher reference)

Question	Answer
1. Which Dewey Decimal category explores the unknown such as Aliens?	000s
2. Thinking and feeling belongs in which Dewey Decimal category?	100s
3. This Dewey Decimal category contains books about different religions.	200s
4. Social Studies books can be found here.	300s
5. Where can languages be found?	400s
6. Books about the natural world are found here.	500s
7. Technologies are filed here.	600s
8. Art and Sports are found in the...	700s
9. Drama and Poetry are shelved where?	800s
10. History and Geography are shelved in what area?	900s

 

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