QR Challenge: S1 Treasure hunt - Team 8
Teacher Notes
A. Prior to the lesson:
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
- Download a QR reader (e.g. I-Nigma | NeoReader | Kaywa) onto their mobile devices
- Bring these devices into the lesson.
3. Print out the QR codes.
4. Cut them out and place them around your class / school.
B. The lesson:
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!
C. TIPS / OTHER IDEAS
4. A detailed case study in how to set up a successful QR Scavenger Hunt using this tool can be found here.
Questions / Answers (teacher reference)
Question | Answer |
| 1. Use the OPAC, click on and type in the author John Lloyd. Find his book for your next clue. (Tip - OPAC stands for online public access catalogue and is where you can search for library books) | NF 001.96 - The book of general ignorance
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2. 2. The library keeps a range of journals (magazines). Find one about Biology for your next clue | Biological Sciences review
| 3. 3. Find one of Daniel Weston’s horror stories for your next clue | Horror genre F WES
| 4. 4. I want to study Environmental Science at Stirling university. Find the course information for your next clue | Careers blue boxes
| 5. 5. Go to the reference section and locate “Ideas; A history volume I”. Search for information on human sacrifices for your next clue! | Reference, page 97
| 6. 6. Joe Sugg wrote a graphic novel about Evie. Find the book for your next clue | Username: Evie GN SUG
| 7. 7. The Dewey number for poetry is 821. Find books by the poet Carol Ann Duffy for your next clue | 821 DUF
| 8. 8.In the ‘Shelf Help’ section, you will find books on health and wellbeing. Look for the Dewey number 004.67 and a book called “The teenage guide to life online”. Here you will find your next clue | (004.67 by Nicola Morgan)
| 9. 9. Tom Hoyle wrote the thriller “Spiders”. Find the book for your next clue | Thriller genre F HOY
| 10. 10. You will find your next clue at Dewey number 453.21 | Collins Italian dictionary & grammar
| 11. 11. Back to your desk. In your Dewey Subject Index, find the number for “The Scottish Wars of Independence”. Write this number down and check with Miss Sharp that you have successfully completed the library treasure hunt | 941.102 |
S1 Treasure hunt - Team 8: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Use-the-OPAC,-click-on--and-type-in-the-author-John-Lloyd.-Find-his-book-for-your-next-clue.-(Tip---OPAC-stands-for-online-public-access-catalogue-and-is-where-you-can-search-for-library-books)
Question 1 (of 11)
S1 Treasure hunt - Team 8: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=2.-The-library-keeps-a-range-of-journals-(magazines).-Find-one-about-Biology-for-your-next-clue
Question 2 (of 11)
S1 Treasure hunt - Team 8: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=3.-Find-one-of-Daniel-Weston’s-horror-stories-for-your-next-clue
Question 3 (of 11)
S1 Treasure hunt - Team 8: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=4.-I-want-to-study-Environmental-Science-at-Stirling-university.-Find-the-course-information-for-your-next-clue
Question 4 (of 11)
S1 Treasure hunt - Team 8: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=5.--Go-to-the-reference-section-and-locate-“Ideas;-A-history-volume-I”.--Search-for-information-on-human-sacrifices-for-your-next-clue!
Question 5 (of 11)
S1 Treasure hunt - Team 8: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=6.-Joe-Sugg-wrote-a-graphic-novel-about-Evie.-Find-the-book-for-your-next-clue
Question 6 (of 11)
S1 Treasure hunt - Team 8: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=7.-The-Dewey-number-for-poetry-is-821.-Find-books-by-the-poet-Carol-Ann-Duffy-for-your-next-clue
Question 7 (of 11)
S1 Treasure hunt - Team 8: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=8.In-the-‘Shelf-Help’-section,-you-will-find-books-on-health-and-wellbeing.--Look-for-the-Dewey-number-004.67-and-a-book-called-“The-teenage-guide-to-life-online”.-Here-you-will-find-your-next-clue
Question 8 (of 11)
S1 Treasure hunt - Team 8: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=9.-Tom-Hoyle-wrote-the-thriller-“Spiders”.--Find-the-book-for-your-next-clue
Question 9 (of 11)
S1 Treasure hunt - Team 8: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=10.-You-will-find-your-next-clue-at-Dewey-number-453.21
Question 10 (of 11)
S1 Treasure hunt - Team 8: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=11.-Back-to-your-desk.-In-your-Dewey-Subject-Index,-find-the-number-for-“The-Scottish-Wars-of-Independence”.-Write-this-number-down-and-check-with-Miss-Sharp-that-you-have-successfully-completed-the-library-treasure-hunt
Question 11 (of 11)
