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. What is the full, official name of this library? | Turnbull Memorial Library | 2. How can you tell if a book is new?2 | It has a red sticker on spine2 | 3. What is the Dewey Decimal system?3 | A number system which organizes non-fiction books by topic.3 | 4. How many public PCs do we have?4 | We have 18 public computers.4 | 5. Find an adult fiction book by spine label F Bro. Write title down here.5 | Various answers.5 | 6. Find our puzzle table and complete a piece of the puzzle. What is the scene on the puzzle?6 | Paris balcony scene.6 | 7. Where are the new YA (young adult) books? Write down a title of one here.7 | Various answers.7 | 8. Find the graphic novels and copy down a spine label from one.8 | Should be GN ___.8 | 9. Locate any book about WWII and write the title and author here.9 | Various.9 | 10. Head back to JF (juvenile fiction) and find a book by Madeline L'Engle. Write the title here.10 | Various.10 |
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Find an adult fiction book by spine label F Bro. Write title down here.5&choe=UTF-8
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Find our puzzle table and complete a piece of the puzzle. What is the scene on the puzzle?6&choe=UTF-8
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Where are the new YA (young adult) books? Write down a title of one here.7&choe=UTF-8
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Find the graphic novels and copy down a spine label from one.8&choe=UTF-8
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Locate any book about WWII and write the title and author here.9&choe=UTF-8
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Head back to JF (juvenile fiction) and find a book by Madeline L'Engle. Write the title here.10&choe=UTF-8
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