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. Use any computer in the library. Go to the home page (you’ll see pictures of the libraries on the page). Click on the “Ebooks for Kids” button. Beside Clue #2 on your answer sheet, write down the three main colors the E-Inc Kids library uses. 2 | 22 | 2. Meet someone new. Find the “Biography” section, and choose a biography. Write the title and call number (found on the lower spine of the book) beside Clue #3. (Hint: there are TWO biography sections in the library: one in the children’s section, and one in the adult section close to non-fiction. Use your signs and flags to help you find these sections.) 3 | 33 | 3. Use the camera on your iPad to take a group selfie with one of your favorite books. Make sure everyone is smiling. Write everyone’s first and last name beside Clue #4 on your answer sheet. 4 | 44 | 4. Take a break with a magazine. Find one of the many magazines our library offers to kids and young adults. Write the title of the magazine beside Clue #5 on your answer sheet. 5 | 55 | 5. Make connections. Your library staff knows a lot more than just how to check out books. Stop by the circulations desk and introduce yourself to one of our fabulous staff members. Then YOU write his/her name beside Clue #6 on your answer sheet. 6 | 66 | 6. Go to the Junvenile Non-fiction section. Find a book of poems. Write down the Dewey Decimal number (the call number on the spine) for the book of poems beside Clue #7 on your answer sheet. 7 | 77 | 7. Mo Willems is a writer of many children’s books. Find a children’s book by Mo Willems. Beside Clue #8 on your answer sheet, write down the title of the book and the call number (located on the lower spine of the book). 8 | 88 | 8. What is the Dewey Decimal number for books about Science Projects? (In other words, which section of Juvenile Non-fiction would you find a book about science projects? Write the section number beside Clue #9. (Hint, it’ll be a group of hundreds, for example, the 100s. But that is not the answer.) 9 | 99 | 9. AFTER YOU GET THE ANSWER FOR CLUE #9, go to that section of Juvenile Non-fiction. Find a specific book you could use for a science project. Write the title, author (if there is one), and call number beside Clue #10 on your answer sheet. 10 | 1010 |
Use any computer in the library. Go to the home page (you’ll see pictures of the libraries on the page). Click on the “Ebooks for Kids” button. Beside Clue #2 on your answer sheet, write down the three main colors the E-Inc Kids library uses. 2 &choe=UTF-8
Question 1 (of 9)
Meet someone new. Find the “Biography” section, and choose a biography. Write the title and call number (found on the lower spine of the book) beside Clue #3. (Hint: there are TWO biography sections in the library: one in the children’s section, and one in the adult section close to non-fiction. Use your signs and flags to help you find these sections.) 3&choe=UTF-8
Question 2 (of 9)
Use the camera on your iPad to take a group selfie with one of your favorite books. Make sure everyone is smiling. Write everyone’s first and last name beside Clue #4 on your answer sheet. 4&choe=UTF-8
Question 3 (of 9)
Take a break with a magazine. Find one of the many magazines our library offers to kids and young adults. Write the title of the magazine beside Clue #5 on your answer sheet. 5&choe=UTF-8
Question 4 (of 9)
Make connections. Your library staff knows a lot more than just how to check out books. Stop by the circulations desk and introduce yourself to one of our fabulous staff members. Then YOU write his/her name beside Clue #6 on your answer sheet. 6&choe=UTF-8
Question 5 (of 9)
Go to the Junvenile Non-fiction section. Find a book of poems. Write down the Dewey Decimal number (the call number on the spine) for the book of poems beside Clue #7 on your answer sheet. 7&choe=UTF-8
Question 6 (of 9)
Mo Willems is a writer of many children’s books. Find a children’s book by Mo Willems. Beside Clue #8 on your answer sheet, write down the title of the book and the call number (located on the lower spine of the book). 8&choe=UTF-8
Question 7 (of 9)
What is the Dewey Decimal number for books about Science Projects? (In other words, which section of Juvenile Non-fiction would you find a book about science projects? Write the section number beside Clue #9. (Hint, it’ll be a group of hundreds, for example, the 100s. But that is not the answer.) 9&choe=UTF-8
Question 8 (of 9)
AFTER YOU GET THE ANSWER FOR CLUE #9, go to that section of Juvenile Non-fiction. Find a specific book you could use for a science project. Write the title, author (if there is one), and call number beside Clue #10 on your answer sheet. 10&choe=UTF-8
Question 9 (of 9)
