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. How many books does the library have by David Miller? | 4 | 2. How many pages are there in the book The Book of Lies? | 326 | 3. In what year was the book S is for South Africa published? | 1999 | 4. What is the call number for books about Cookery? | 740 | 5. What is the second book in the Five Ancestors series? | Not sure | 6. What is the book Three Cups of Tea about? | tea drinking | 7. What subjects have the location number 998? | Australia | 8. Find the book History of South America in the 1700s by Chris Day, call number 998 DAY and copy down the code word. | Dewey | 9. Find the book The Sky is Falling Down by June Thompson, call number F THO, and copy down the code word. | Decimal | 10. Find the book How to Speak French by Louise Smith, call number 998 SMI, and copy down the code word. | System | 11. Find the book Long Days by Dean Barrett, call number F BAR, and copy down the code word. | Rocks |
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