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. Pick a picture book off the top shelf of the red cart and read it aloud together. | Out in the lobby, directly across from the library door. | 2. Find the place in the library where you can search for keywords and titles of library books. Search for a title or keyword. | The desktop computer near the stairway window. | 3. Find the library bulletin board, where currently you will find information on STEM scientists. Write down something you are curious about on the posted paper. | Bulletin board at the bottom of the stairs. | 4. Find the 3D Printer (Hint: it is near the bathrooms and Kindergarten hooks).Look at some of the 3D printed designs. | Outside the student bathrooms. | 5. Find the poetry books (hint: you may find them near the front door of the school, where it is very green and leafy). Pick a poetry book and read a poem aloud together. | Outside the library doors, to the right. | 6. Find the Graphic Novel section, where you can read some comics (hint, they are in the library under the colorful art on the wall...) | Graphic novel section. | 7. Find the bulletin board inside the library, and the posters showing you the winners of the Newbery and Caldecott book awards. Pick one book on either poster that you are interested in reading and stick a post-it note with your name beside the book (Hint: the bulletin board inside the library is behind the bookshelves). | Library bulletin board. | 8. Find the library seating booth, under the leaf. Stop and read a Thanksgiving book on the table. | Library booth. | 9. Find the genre cards taped up under the front windows of the library (Tall Tale, Fairy Tale, myth, etc). Read them aloud and talk about the ones you like to read the most. | Library genres | 10. Sit down at a library table and complete the Shel Silverstein secret code. | Shel Silverstein code. |
Pick a picture book off the top shelf of the red cart and read it aloud together. &choe=UTF-8
Question 1 (of 10)
Find the place in the library where you can search for keywords and titles of library books. Search for a title or keyword.&choe=UTF-8
Question 2 (of 10)
Find the library bulletin board, where currently you will find information on STEM scientists. Write down something you are curious about on the posted paper.&choe=UTF-8
Question 3 (of 10)
Find the 3D Printer (Hint: it is near the bathrooms and Kindergarten hooks).Look at some of the 3D printed designs.&choe=UTF-8
Question 4 (of 10)
Find the poetry books (hint: you may find them near the front door of the school, where it is very green and leafy). Pick a poetry book and read a poem aloud together.&choe=UTF-8
Question 5 (of 10)
Find the Graphic Novel section, where you can read some comics (hint, they are in the library under the colorful art on the wall...)&choe=UTF-8
Question 6 (of 10)
Find the bulletin board inside the library, and the posters showing you the winners of the Newbery and Caldecott book awards. Pick one book on either poster that you are interested in reading and stick a post-it note with your name beside the book (Hint: the bulletin board inside the library is behind the bookshelves).&choe=UTF-8
Question 7 (of 10)
Find the library seating booth, under the leaf. Stop and read a Thanksgiving book on the table.&choe=UTF-8
Question 8 (of 10)
Find the genre cards taped up under the front windows of the library (Tall Tale, Fairy Tale, myth, etc). Read them aloud and talk about the ones you like to read the most.&choe=UTF-8
Question 9 (of 10)
Sit down at a library table and complete the Shel Silverstein secret code.&choe=UTF-8
Question 10 (of 10)
