QR Challenge: databases and descriptions

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. What is the Searchasaurus Ebsco database designed to do?	meet the research needs of elementary students through a variety of resources
2. What is the Kids Infobits Gale database designed for?	students in grades K-5 that is developmentally appropriate in visual design and subject based search with references and information on current events
3. What is the difference between World book Kids and World Book Student?	WBK is easy to use specifically for elementary students while WBS is and upgraded version of the online reference center in World Book and includes articles from the encyclopedia
4. What is the CultureGrams ProQuest database?	brings country and cultural research to life with facts about people, countries, flag, etc.
5. What is PebbleGo?	a database with information about animals, earth and space, biographies, and social studies created by Capstone Press

 

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