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. Type in your student number and press enter. 2 weeks. 4 books. $.05 day per book | how do you check out books | 2. The book drop on the circulation desk. | how do you turn in books? | 3. Write down a title of the red sheet. March. | Battle books and qualifying test. | 4. Cybercat | how do I search for a book | 5. Login:student number password: password | How do I log in to Reading Counts? | 6. Use Quizlist | How do I know if a book is Reading Counts or not? | 7. By genre | How are the books arranged in the plastic case in the front of the library? | 8. By the exit door in back of the media center. | where are graphic novels located? | 9. World Book | What is the electronic encyclopedia? | 10. Axis 360. See Mrs. Stratton for help setting this up on your device! | electronic books | 11. Write in on the clipboard that says books to order. | how to get books to order | 12. In the front of the media center by the conference room. | magazines | 13. By subject using the Dewey decimal system | non-fiction | 14. Get a yellow permanent lunch pass (take one!) | lunch | 15. Alphabetically by the person that they are about. | biographies | 16. Alphabetically by author | fiction | 17. Student number and Edsby password | how to log in to computers | 18. Free | printing | 19. The big red rack | challenging books | 20. Red, blue or yellow stickers | non-fiction books for Reading Counts. |
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