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.
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1. Using the CHMS Media Center website - when can students visit the library? | whenever they like! | 2. Using HIP find the call # for the book A Corner of the Universe and go to that book for the next question | MAR | 3. Our nonfiction books are organized using the dewey decimal system. What numerical section of nonfiction would books about weather be in, go to it now! | 500s | 4. Your library has Ebooks now! You can read them on ipads and android tablets. On September 21st the whole program is going to be updated - and all smartphones, ipod touches and tablets will be able to be used! You can get to those books using the ebooks tab on HIP, or you can use this website, what is the web address that you would use to access the ebooks our school owns ~ Find one of the Follett Digital reader table tents around the library for this answer! | www.wbb10336.follettshelf.com | 5. Find the Graphic Novel section of the media center. List one title available and its call #. | varies | 6. What tool on the internet (that Mrs. Williams goes on and on about)can provide you with research, book recommendations, spanish encyclopedias and a whole lot more? | www.ncwiseowl.com | 7. Want to keep up with what's going on in the media center, follow us on twitter. Check out the media center website to find out what the media centers Twitter page called? | @CHMSlmc |
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