QR Challenge: Library Orientation-Scavenger Hunt

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. Using the green Library Media Center brochure at the circulation desk, what are the hours of the library?	Monday-Thursday 7:20am-3:30pm Friday 7:20am-2:40pm
2. Find the loan periods for books, magazines/audio visual, and reference materials using the same green form.	Books-14 days, Magazines/Audio Visual-7 days, and Reference-overnight.
3. Find the fines(per day) of books/magazines/video and reference	Books/Magazines/Video-$.10, Reference $.25
4. Who wrote the poem; “Hope is the Thing with Feathers,” on page 90 in the book entitled, Great Poems by American Women, call number 811 GRE?	Emily Dickinson
5. Locate The Historical Atlas of Expeditions on the atlas stand. Who is featured on page 124?	Daniel Boone
6. Introduce yourself to the librarian, Mrs. Siefert, and have her sign your paper.	sign the paper
7. Find the two newspapers available in the library and name them.	St. Louis Post Dispatch and USA Today
8. What is the title of the book located at Q 709.24 WAL?	Michelangelo
9. Go up to the balcony and find the book Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld. Write the call number of the book.	FIC WES
10. Go up to the balcony and find the book Bag of Bones by Stephen King. Write the call number of the book.	FIC KIN
11. Introduce yourself to the librarian, Mrs. Drabik, and have her sign your paper.	sign the paper
12. Find the book by Jack R. Fischel 940.53 FIS. What is the title?	The Holocaust
13. In the book Art and Architecture of China, 709.51 HOL, what type of art are they discussing in chapter 6?	Ceramics & Porcelain

 

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