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. I am the shelf of award books for 4th through 8th grade | Rebecca Caudill | 2. I am the shelf where you can find true stories about real people | Biography | 3. I am the shelf where you can find books and CD sets | Listening Library | 4. I am where you can look up information on websites and log in to type a paper or make a project | Computers | 5. I am the name of our computer library search system | Destiny | 6. I am where you can return your books | Book Return | 7. I am the shelves where you can find chapter books in English | Fiction | 8. I am the shelves where you can find chapter books in Spanish | Spanish Fiction | 9. I am the shelves where you can find true English books about most anything | Nonfiction | 10. I am the shelves where you can find true books in Spanish | Spanish Nonfiction | 11. I am the shelf of award books for 3rd through 5th grade | Bluestem | 12. I keep a special type of library material that has short articles and comes in the mail every month or 2 | magazines |
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