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. In which book does a character build a motorized skateboard and a talking toaster? | At the Bottom of the World Bill Nye & Gregory Mone | 2. In which book does a character say, "Einstein published a long time ago, too. Are you gonna poohpooh him? | The Fourteenth Goldfish Jennifer L. Holm | 3. In which book does a character have no idea if he's been imprisoned in a column for centuries or only minutes? | A Wrinkle in Time Madeleine L'Engle | 4. In which book is an old terrace at the back of a house in ruins like everything else? | The Old Willis Place Mary Downing Hahn | 5. In which book do two siblings have a plan for showing their mother around their school? | Becoming Naomi Leon Pam Munoz Ryan | 6. In which book does a character think the best place to post a sign is in your own neighborhood? | How To Steal A Dog Barbara O'Connor | 7. In which book do workers at a shelter decide to let a dog go home with a character but still keep searching for the original owners? | Rain Reign Ann M. Martin | 8. In which book do new settlers take revenge on natives, even ones that had helped them so much? | Blood on the River Elisa Carbone | 9. In which book does a character call her newspaper covered walls "newsy decoration" | Stella By Starlight Sharon M. Draper | 10. In which book might it seem superstitious, but when acharacter's mother says something is going to happen, it always does? | Save Me A Seat Sarah Weeks & Gita Varadarajan | 11. In which book does a character know his friend has a crush on his sister and wonders if she has a crush on his friend? | Found Margaret Peterson Haddix | 12. In which book does a character want her hair color to fade because the resemblance to her sister will be greater if their hair is the same color? | Runaway Twin Peg Kehret | 13. In which book is a character's shift at an ice cream factory over at midnight? | A Snicker of Magic Natalie Lloyd | 14. In which book does a character plan to take a few gems to the jeweler's and see if the jeweler can give him an estimate of their worth? | Ruby Holler Sharon Creech | 15. In which book do two local camera crews do interviews with students at a meeting? | Ban This Book Alan Gratz | 16. In which book is a character instructed to wear his armor whenever he leaves a fort? | Blood on the River Elisa Carbone |
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