QR Challenge: The Lost Books

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. The Wolves of Willough by Chaseby Joan Aiken
2. Skellig by David Almond
3. Carrie's War by Nina Bawden
4. Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
5. Millions by Frank Cottrell Boyce
6. The Witches by Roald Dahl
7. Matilda by Roald Dahl and Quentin Blake
8. Flour Babies by Anne Fine
9. Once by Morris Gleitzman
10. The Adventures of Tintin by Hergé
11. Journey to the River Sea by Eva Ibbotson
12. Stig of the Dump by Clive King
13. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C S Lewis
14. Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian
15. Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo
16. A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
17. The Borrowers by Mary Norton
18. Truckers by Terry Pratchett
19. Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome
20. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J K Rowling
21. Holes by Louis Sachar
22. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
23. Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfeild
24. The Hobbit by J R R Tolkien
25. The Story of Tracy Beaker by Jacqueline Wilson

 

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