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. Find the book on table 1 that has a title that is a two word phrase (noun + verb). | Darkness Creeping | 2. Read the description on the back and list 2 contractions and tell what they stand for. Next clue p. 17. | you're, you'll, you are, you will | 3. Find the word on page 17 that means "a strange or diverse collection." | menagerie | 4. Hey I just met you and this is crazy...Locate the book cover that shows illustrations of spirits, and scan the clue underneath. | bulletin board | 5. Locate this book on table 2, and copy the book dedication. | The pictures are for my father AB. | 6. What is the idiom used to describe Aunt Matilda on p. 26? | "round the bend" | 7. Find the author biography page, and tell about Poe's first experience as a published poet and story writer. | He submitted 5 stories for a contest sponsored by a newspaper. None won,but the paper published all five. | 8. Which of Poe's stories was the first short story ever written to feature a detective? | "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" | 9. Find the title on table 1 that is a synonym for "Southern spirits." | "Dixie Ghosts" | 10. List the two chapter titles that show possession. | The Tree's Wife, Toad's Foot | 11. Appositive to the word "companion" on page 46. | Hettie Morrison | 12. Find the book on table 2 that uses a pun in the title/subtitle. | Short Circuit: 13 shocking short stories | 13. What are the three obvious synonyms in the table of contents? | jolted, electrified, zapped | 14. On page 80, find the superlative form of two irregular adjectives. | best, most |
Find the book on table 1 that has a title that is a two word phrase (noun + verb).&choe=UTF-8
Question 1 (of 14)
Read the description on the back and list 2 contractions and tell what they stand for. Next clue p. 17.&choe=UTF-8
Question 2 (of 14)
Find the word on page 17 that means "a strange or diverse collection."&choe=UTF-8
Question 3 (of 14)
Hey I just met you and this is crazy...Locate the book cover that shows illustrations of spirits, and scan the clue underneath.&choe=UTF-8
Question 4 (of 14)
Locate this book on table 2, and copy the book dedication.&choe=UTF-8
Question 5 (of 14)
What is the idiom used to describe Aunt Matilda on p. 26? &choe=UTF-8
Question 6 (of 14)
Find the author biography page, and tell about Poe's first experience as a published poet and story writer.&choe=UTF-8
Question 7 (of 14)
Which of Poe's stories was the first short story ever written to feature a detective?&choe=UTF-8
Question 8 (of 14)
Find the title on table 1 that is a synonym for "Southern spirits."&choe=UTF-8
Question 9 (of 14)
List the two chapter titles that show possession.&choe=UTF-8
Question 10 (of 14)
Appositive to the word "companion" on page 46.&choe=UTF-8
Question 11 (of 14)
Find the book on table 2 that uses a pun in the title/subtitle.&choe=UTF-8
Question 12 (of 14)
What are the three obvious synonyms in the table of contents?&choe=UTF-8
Question 13 (of 14)
On page 80, find the superlative form of two irregular adjectives.&choe=UTF-8
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