QR Challenge: 4th grade Orientation

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. What do we use Destiny for?	To find books in the library.
2. What are three basic ways to search Destiny?	Title, author, and subject
3. What 2 things do nonfiction numbers have?	Numbers and 1st three letters of author's last name.
4. What is the system used to organize nonfiction books?	Dewey Decimal System
5. What do you do if you want a book but it is already checked out?	Put a hold on it.
6. If you are in the library when there is a fire drill, where do you go?	The stairwell by the mural.
7. What is the job of a call number?	The call numbers tells where the book lives in the library.
8. What are 3 things you should do before you leave the lab?	Logout of programs, Logoff the computer, and push in your chair.
9. What is a biography?	A biography is a book about someone's life.
10. What is different about a biography's call number?	It has a B (for biography) and the SUBJECT's last name.
11. How many books and/or magazines can you have out at one time?	3
12. What do you do if Mrs. Smith is teaching or no one is at the desk and you want to check out a book?	Leave the book on the desk with a sticky that has your name and classroom on it.
13. Where do you put your book if you want to keep it longer?	In the black renew bin.
14. What is the Connecticut state book award called?	Nutmeg Books
15. What do we call the label on the spine of all the books?	The call number
16. What does a fiction chapter book call number have?	F and author's last name
17. How are fiction books organized?	Alphabetically by author's last name
18. What does a fiction picture book call number have?	E and the author's last name

 

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