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. Who usually sits behind the circulation desk? | Mrs. Hebb | 2. What is open before school and Tuesday, Thursday and Friday at lunch? | Makerspace | 3. What kind of books are found around the meeting area of the library? | Everybody books | 4. How many fish are in the fish tank? | 4 | 5. Where can I turn in my books if the library is closed? | The slot by the front door | 6. What do I need to come into the library at lunch? | a library pass | 7. What can I do if someone has the book I want checked out already? | put it on hold | 8. How many books does our library have on the Titanic? Hint: check Library Search! | 44 | 9. How can you keep checking books out all summer? | come to the summer reading program | 10. The Dewey Decimal numbers and what they mean are located on the wall under what? | World Map | 11. Name a book by Geronimo Stilton (hint; try the series shelf!) | Various | 12. What is the Dewey Decimal number for graphic novels? (Hint like Bone, Baby Mouse, Pokémon) | 741.5 | 13. What do we call the round colorful circles you can sit on to read after you have checked out? | doughnut pillows | 14. What does Clifford like to say? | Books are our Friends | 15. What is the title of one Sasquatch Award winning book? | Various | 16. What books are located on the same bookcase as the biographies? | Holiday | 17. What Superhero is on the letter "B" over the fiction section? | Batman | 18. What kinds of books have the call number 736? | origami | 19. What kinds of books are located under the front windows of the library? | fiction | 20. Where can we go to read quietly after we have checked out a book? | Couches | 21. Where do we go on the computer to check on a book? | Library Search | 22. How many students sit in a row in library? | 5 | 23. The number you use to check out in the library is the same as your? | Lunch Number |
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