QR Challenge: QR Scavenger Hunt at the Avon Library

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. Find a copy of the Avon Reads 1 book. Is it NEW and exciting for ADULTs?	Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
2. How many kid’s magazines start with the letter N?	2 Nintendo Power & National Geographic for Kids
3. Know your LOCAL HISTORY, make ROOM to know what number fills in the blank: the Connecticut ___th Volunteer Infantry?	29th
4. KIDS love to find a quiet NOOK to relax, even MR. ROGERS wants to celebrate this beautiful day. How many frogs are pictured inside & out?	3
5. If it doesn't TAX you too much, bring back a 1040EZ. Will you promise not to cheat by COPYing or SCAN another team?	bring a 1040EZ tax form back
6. LISTEN closely, keep your EARS open: even though it is a KIDS story, all ages love the BOY WHO LIVED. Figure out where he resides and you found your next clue. What was the author's name again?	Kid's Audio section, Harry Potter
7. Know your LOCAL HISTORY, make ROOM to find out how many animal shoes were left behind after the Civil War?	2, 1 horseshoe, 1 mule shoe
8. You look really thirsty, if you were a KID or a TEEN, where would you quench your thirst?	Water fountain outside girl's bathroom
9. Remember reading CT Nutmeg nominees when you were in Grades 4, 5, and 6? Go find where they are, what item sits on top of where they are?	Silver trophy
10. You don't have to be an ART GALLERY expert to find out who sang the truth and was the "Queen of Gospel"?	Mahalia Jackson
11. As and ADULT, but not a kid or teen you might not read it in MAGAZINES, but how many actual full sized flags and what types of flags are displayed in the library?	2 flags: CT & US
12. NEAL SHUSTERMAN is an CT AWARD nominated author, if you asked him for another word for RELAX what would he say?	Location: Past Teen Nutmeg Nominees under Neal Shusterman's UNWIND
13. For your REFERENCE as an ADULT, you should know which presidential bust is in the Avon Library?	George Washington
14. Allie Condie's TEEN book #3 is the answer for your goal. Can you figure it out?	Allie Condie's REACHED

 

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