QR Challenge: Library Scavenger Hunt Orientation

Created using the ClassTools QR Treasure Hunt Generator

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.

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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!

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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.

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Questions / Answers (teacher reference)

Question	Answer
1. Circulation Desk: Politely introduce yourself to one or both of our library staff members. What are their names?	Mrs. Reece and Mrs. Stieber
2. Circulation Desk: How many books can you have checked out at one time?	3 books
3. Circulation Desk: How long are you allowed to keep the books?	2 weeks
4. Circulation Desk: Do you have to pay for overdue books?	No
5. Circulation Desk: Do you have to pay for lost books?	Yes
6. Circulation Desk: Where do you return books?	In the basket on the counter.
7. Fiction Section: Are Fiction books stories that are real or are made up?	Made up
8. Fiction Section: Are Fiction books organized by the author’s first or last name?	Last name
9. Fiction Section: Look through the fiction section and find the name of one author whose last name starts with the same letter as yours. Have your partner / team do the same. Touch the books.	Answers vary
10. Fiction Section: Find the AR stickers on the bottoms of the spines. Name each AR Level and the color of the sticker.	1st – light blue; 2nd – red; 3rd – green; 4th – brown; 5th – yellow; 6th – purple; 7th – orange; 8th – pink
11. Fiction Section: Find the genre dot posters on the ends of the book shelves. What color genre dot is “Historical Fiction”?	Light blue
12. Fiction Section: What color genre dot is “Realistic Fiction”?	Yellow
13. Non Fiction Section: Locate the Dewey Decimal posters. What books would you find in the 500’s?	Natural Science
14. Non Fiction Section: According to the Dewey Decimal posters, what books would you find in the 700’s?	Arts and Recreation
15. Non Fiction Section: Find the biographies. These books are arranged by genres. What biography genre would a book about Abraham Lincoln be in?	U.S. Leaders
16. Non Fiction Section: Find the Graphic Novels/ Manga books. What Dewey Decimal classification number are these located in?	700s
17. Non Fiction Section: Look for the cookbooks. What number are these located in?	600s
18. Write down this quote from Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets: “It is our choices that show who we truly are far more than our abilities.”	No answer

 

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