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. The place you go to scan your books in and out | Circulation desk | 2. A book title in Fiction written by Tristan Bancks | various | 3. The call number (Dewey) on the spine label for books about cooking | 641 | 4. A Junior Fiction book title written by Alison Lester | various | 5. Where should your library books go when you are finished with them? | Circulation desk or Mrs Shuttleworth. | 6. How many books do we have in Fiction, written by Mark Wilson | 24 | 7. Zac Power is written by whom? | H I Larry | 8. What Books are written by J. K. Rowling | The Harry Potter Series. | 9. Find the rules in the library and list them? | Various | 10. What is the new Junior School Librarians name? | Mrs Robertson | 11. What is Mrs Robertson's dog's name | Pebbles | 12. The call number (Dewey) on the spine label for books about cats | 636.8 | 13. The call number on the spine label for books in the Wings of Fire series | F SUT |
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