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. This book is on table 1 and is illustrated by Riley. | Ghosts and Poltergeists | 2. Turn to the Table of Contents. Where do I look to find the meaning of a word? Go to this section. | Glossary | 3. When did William Mumner go on trial? The beginning of this sentence is a ? | 1845, prepositional phrase | 4. Read the caption on p. 45 under the picture. Name the two objects of a prepositonal phrase. | mirror and glass | 5. This book is with a person who takes care of you when you're sick. | Nurse Brewer | 6. Turn to the Table of Contents and turn to the page that is a variety of flower. | geranium | 7. How is the grass personified on this page? | peeking around through...hardened grass. | 8. This book is with the nice lady who greets every person as they enter the building. | Carrie | 9. What company published this book? | Greenwillow Books | 10. Find a chapter title that is an independent sentence. | The Dog Got Them | 11. This book is with the person who checks books out to you. | Harlow or Jenkins | 12. Look at the Table of Contents and turn to the chapter that is hyphenated. | The Fortune-teller | 13. Turn to page 44. Find a paragraph that begins with a participle phrase. | "Closing the folder," | 14. This book is found with an officer of the law. | Scruggs | 15. What is the copyright date? | 2004 | 16. List 3 specific visual images that describe the Deaton house on page 78. | comfortable, small, plain, bare | 17. This book is on table 2, and the call number is 398.27 ASK. | Ask the Bones | 18. To whom is this book dedicated? | Sterling North, Shira, Nathan, Miriam | 19. Turn to page 92. Copy the sentence with the word "scooped" in it. In this sentence, "scooped" is what part of speech? | verb | 20. This book is on table 3, and the author is Coleman. | Dixie Spirits | 21. What is the subtitle of this book? | True Tales of the Strange and Supernatural in the South | 22. Copy the simile found on page 8. | "...when the wind howls through the eaves of the old courthouse like a banshee's baleful wail..." | 23. This book is on table 1, and has a call # of 398.2 SCH. | More Scary Stories | 24. Find the name of the story on page x that is an example of onomatopoeia. | BA-ROOOM | 25. What is the subject of the sentence that makes up the name of the 4th chapter? | Everything | 26. What kind of soup would someone reading the chapter titled "The Last Laugh" eat? | Cemetary Soup |
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