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. The circulation desk is where you go to check out books Look for the library staff cartoon at the circulation desk and scan the QR Code Clue | Mrs. Taft and Mrs. Stowe | 2. Fiction stories are stories that are made up Look for the Fiction QR Code Clue somewhere in the Fiction section to find the answer | True | 3. Fiction books are organized by the Author’s first or last name Find QR Code number 3 for the answer | false | 4. Look through the fiction section, and find the name of one author whose LAST NAME starts with the same letter as yours Have your partner/team do the same. Write the Author’s last name:________and______. | taft | 5. Science Fiction, Mystery, and Adventure stories are a type of genre in literature. Look for the Horror QR Code Clue in fiction near the Genre Label poster. What scary thing is on the poster?_______Find a Horror book and write the title:__________________ | Monster |
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