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. Find a fiction book written by Paulsen | paulsen | 2. In 900’s find a book on the Holocaust | world war II | 3. Find a Dear America book in the fiction | Dea | 4. In 800’s find a poetry book by Silverstein | 800 | 5. Where can you search for a book without logging in? | Book search | 6. Where can you find the due date of a book? | due date | 7. Where do you return books? | Return books here | 8. Find a World Book Encyclopedia. | References | 9. Take a picture of the librarian. | Mrs. Hawkins | 10. Where can you find your log-in information? | Yellow card | 11. How do you hold a book? Take a picture of the directions. | Book search | 12. What is the Dewey Decimal number of any biography book? | 921 |
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