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. Find this book on table 2; be careful not to cut yourself! Get the next clue from the cover. | A Sliver of Glass | 2. What is the call number of this book? Find The Golden Touch for the next clue. | F MAZ | 3. What word is used several times, both as a noun and an adjective? Give an example of each. | gold | 4. Find this classic tale adapted by David Cutts on table 3. Next clue is on the cover. | The Pit and the Pendulum | 5. Turn to the title page. What does it mean if a tale is adapted? | retold in a slightly different way. | 6. Turn to page 12 and find a compound adjective. | deathlike | 7. Go to table 1 and find a title with this structure: Article + Noun + Prepositional phrase ending in finality. Next clue is taped to the cover. | The Masque of the Red Death | 8. Look on the title page to see who the original author of this tale is. | Edgar Allan Poe | 9. Turn to p.19 and find the sentence beginning with a coordinating conjuction | "And these dreams twisted in and about..." | 10. Go to table 2 and find the book with a call number that stands for "Easy." Next clue is on the book cover. | Fall of the House of Usher | 11. Use Safari to find The Museum of Edgar Allan Poe. Complete this sentence: "The name Poe brings to mind images of ____. Find your next clue on the copyright page. | images of murderers and madmen, premature burials, and mysterious women who return from the dead | 12. Write the sentence on p.21 that contains a simile. | "A faintly glowing fog hung about the mansion like a shroud." | 13. This book is on table 1 and the title contains a word meaning "weird, uncanny." Next clue is on the book cover. | Ghostly Tales and Eerie Poems | 14. Turn to p.58. Read the caption under the illustration. Using context clues, what do you think the writer means by the phrase "emaciated frame?" | body is skinny - wasting away | 15. Read the poem "The Raven." In stanza 7, the Raven sits upon a statue of a Roman warrior Titan. Who is it? | Pallas |
Question 1 (of 15)
Question 2 (of 15)
Question 3 (of 15)
Question 4 (of 15)
Question 5 (of 15)
Question 6 (of 15)
Question 7 (of 15)
Question 8 (of 15)
Question 9 (of 15)
Question 10 (of 15)
Question 11 (of 15)
Question 12 (of 15)
Question 13 (of 15)
Question 14 (of 15)
Question 15 (of 15)
