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.
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1. Welcome to Digital Learning Day 2013! Your job in this scavenger hunt is to find the other 15 QR codes which have been put on display in the HS wing, gyms, and lunch room. Scan each QR code into your mobile device to get a challenge question or task. Record the correct answers to all of the questions and then submit them by email to kristinmulder@sfchristian.org (if you cannot email them, you are allowed to write them on paper and hand them in at the HS office). The winner (or winning team) will be the one who submits the most correct answers by 2:00pm TODAY! Good luck! | 1 | 2. Search our school’s website to find the first names of the THREE “Mrs. Mulder”s who work at Sioux Falls Christian | Sara, Sheila, Kristin | 3. You recently had a chapel speaker who gave his version of the acronym L.O.V.E. What does the “L” stand for in this acronym? | Link Arms | 4. Our digital tools can be quite “awesome” , but the Bible reminds us that “dominion and awe belong to God.” Which Bible verse does this reminder come from? | Job 25:2 | 5. Unscramble the letters to make the name of a teacher in the SFC building: srneebg | engbers | 6. What was the date (month and year) when the first generation iPad was released in the United States? | April 2010 | 7. If you could only have ONE electronic item for a whole week, which item would you choose? (this includes ALL things that take electricity and/or batteries) | varying answers | 8. We live in a world where we heavily RELY upon our digital tools to help us stay organized, communicate, share data, and find answers. Too often though, we RELY more upon these tools than we do upon the Lord. Find one Bible verse in which we are reminded to RELY upon the Lord. | varying answers | 9. In the acronym for L.O.V.E., our chapel speaker made the letter “V” stand for what? | Value Relationships | 10. True or False? The first “doodle” on the Google home page logo was that of a dog. | False | 11. What was the original name of the Stanford research project now known as GOOGLE? | Back Rub | 12. What is the sum of the DIGITS from 1 to 100? | 901 | 13. Microsoft recently launched a “hybrid” device that can be a laptop or a tablet. What is the name of this hybrid device? | Surface | 14. Riddle me this… “You answer me though I never ask you questions. What am I?” | telephone | 15. What do the “Q” and “R” stand for in “QR code”? | Quick Response | 16. Use various websites to find information regarding “26 Acts of Kindness” and “@26Acts” and “#26Actsofkindness” (or “Random Acts…”). Once you have an understanding of this challenge that was laid out by Ann Curry of NBC’s Today Show, tell me what your first act of kindness would be if you were to take on this challenge. IF YOU FEEL LED TO ACT ON THIS, PLEASE GO TO MR. VANNIEUWENHUYZEN’S OFFICE TO PICK UP A CHECK LIST WITH ALL OF THE 26 VICTIMS’ NAMES ON IT AND USE THIS AS YOUR GUIDE TO COMPLETE THE “26 ACTS OF RANDOM KINDNESS” CHALLENGE IN HONOR OF THE NEWTOWN, CT, VICTIMS. | varying answers |
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