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. Let’s get started! At each QR code you will collect a clue and a number. Collect all 10 numbers and add them up to finish the hunt. Do you feel like chicken tonight? Well go to the cooking section (J 641.5s) and see what you can make for dinner. Find this shelf and click on the QR to find your next stop. Here is your number 8 | eight | 2. We have all the Girl Scout books to help you know all you can about scouting. You’ll find them in Dewey # J 369.46. Go to this place in the collection to find your next number. Here is your number 6 | six | 3. Find the J Non-fiction DVD’s on Dancing somewhere in the DVD J 793’s. Here is your number 2 | two | 4. Rachel Russell is the author of the DORK DIARIES. Go to her spot in the J Fiction for your next clue. Here is your number 12 | twelve | 5. Where is the J Mystery Collection? Find the Nancy Drew Books (JM KEE). Don’t forget to record the number 7 | seven | 6. Where do you go in the Children’s Library when you want to find our newest fiction? Hint - it’s near the tall measuring tape. Here is your number 3 | three | 7. If you want to check out your books by yourself without someone at the front desk, where would you go? Here is your number 10 | ten | 8. It’s Horse Week! Read all you can on these magnificent creatures. Go to J 636.1s. Don’t forget your number! Here is your number 4 | four | 9. Where are the magazines? Find that spot and look for AMERICAN GIRL. Here is your number 5 | five | 10. For your last number visit the fish tank. Here is your number for here 16 | sixteen | 11. Now that you’re at the fish tank, here is your number. 14 | fourteen |
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