QR Challenge: Librarians Rock!

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. Which dictator once worked as an assistant librarian in a university library?	Mao Zedong
2. What famous lover worked as a librarian?	Giacomo Casanova
3. Which superheroine works as a librarian during the day?	Batgirl
4. Who formed the first public lending library in America?	Benjamin Franklin
5. What game has librarians who are superhuman fighters with potent psychic powers?	Warhammer 40,000
6. What American librarian and author of the books, 'Book Lust' and 'More Book Lust' is the only librarian to have an action figured modelled after her?	Nancy Pearl
7. 'Conan the Librarian' appears briefly in Weir Al Yancovick's movie, 'UHF.' What does Conan do to a library patron who has an overdue book?	Slices him in two with his sword
8. What political figure worked at the Library of Congress before becoming one of the most influential people in the U.S. during the 1950s and 60s?	J. Edgar Hoover
9. What librarian invented the Dewey Decimal System of classification which is widely used in libraries today?	Melvil Dewey
10. Who stars in the television movies, 'The Librarian?'	Noah Wyle

 

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