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. Ask the librarian at the circulation desk for your first clue, determine what book series the clue words are describing | Percy Jackson | 2. Find the name of one author in the YA fiction section whose LAST name starts with the same letter of your LAST name, write both names | Answer will vary | 3. What is the title and author of the last book in YA fiction section? | I Am The Messenger by Marcus Zusak | 4. How many computers are in the library (do not count the ones in the school computer lab) | 16 | 5. Look up the word AUSPICIOUS in the dictionary and write its definition | Attended by favorable circumstances;propitious | 6. Ask Mrs. Murphy what her favorite children's book is and write its title | Depends on her answer | 7. Ask Mrs. Dera how to shorten a website address (URL) and write the website where you can do this | https://bitly.com | 8. Ask the librarian at the circulation desk for your final book clue, determine the book that the clue words are describing | Hunger Games |
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