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. How many books can a student check out at one time? | Two | 2. What do you need to check out a book? | Agenda with bar code | 3. How long may students keep books, and what happens if you go over that time limit? | Three weeks; you may not check out another book until the overdue book is returned | 4. How are biographies organized? | Last name of person written about | 5. Who are your media specialists? | Mrs. Lipscomb and Mrs. Yaryan | 6. How many book fairs will the media center have? | Two | 7. What items are for sale in the media center? | Pens,pencils,lead,erasers,poster board | 8. In which Dewey decimal class(hundreds section)are history books found? | 900s | 9. Where is the Series section located? | By the couches, to the left inside the front doors | 10. How do you find a fiction book? | By the first three letters of the author's last name | 11. What can you do on media center computers? | Computers are for school assignments only | 12. What happens if you lose a book? | Lost books must be paid for before you may check out more books | 13. What do you do to help remember when your book is due? | Stamp date due slip in back of the book | 14. What are the rules for printing in the media center? | Ask teacher or media specialist before printing | 15. Where do you return a book in the media center? | Turn books in at circulation desk. If checking out another book, hold on to the book to be returned until you check out | 16. What do “check in” and “check out” mean? | Check in: you are returning the book to the media center; check out: you are getting a book from the media center to take with you |
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