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. 1. Where do you go to checkout a book? | Circulation Desk | 2. 2. What is the call number for the Elsewhere Chronicles ? | GN741.5 BAN | 3. 3. Who wrote the book "Torn"? | Margret Peterson Haddix | 4. 4. What is the log on password for the library computer lab? | gocats | 5. 5. What information do you need to put on the library sign in sheet? | name, hour, teacher, reason | 6. 6. What is the call number for the book titled "Supercomputers"? | 004.1 Bil | 7. 7. Where do you return books? | Book drop | 8. 8. My call number is 370.9 BIA. What is my title? | One Room School | 9. 9. How many computers are in the library computer lab? | 14 | 10. 10. Who wrote the book "Savvy"? | Ingrid Law | 11. 11. What do you need to checkout a book? | Student ID | 12. 12. What is the call number for dictionaries? | 423 | 13. 13. How many volumes are there of the World Book Encyclopedia published in 2005? | 22 | 14. 14. Where are this year’s 20 nominated Rebecca Caudill books located? | On top of fiction shelves | 15. 15. The book with the call number 92 MY is about who? | Walter Dean Myers | 16. 16. What is the title of the book with handcuffs on the front cover? It was written by the answer to question 15? | Glory Field | 17. 17. Who is Amy’s Corner named after? | Amy Salaba | 18. 18. What is the name of the magazine you would use to find information and reviews about products? | Consumer Report | 19. 19. On what page, of the largest book if its kind in our library, would you find the definition for the word library? | 1108 | 20. 20. In the book series The Rangers Apprentice what is the main character’s name? | Will | 21. 21. Who wrote the book "Face to Face"? | Bauer | 22. 22. What year was the magician Harry Houdini born? | 1874 | 23. 23. I wrote Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. Look for the next clue under my head. | Mark Twain bust | 24. 24. What is the call number of the reference book titled The West? | REF 978 WAR | 25. 25. Who handcrafted the Amy’s Corner sign? | Mrs. Ziller | 26. 26. What is the magazine Cobblestone about? | American History | 27. 27. What is the subject of the books with the call numbers 796? | sports | 28. 28. How many pages are in the book titled "Deer Hunting"? | 24 | 29. 29. What is the title of the second Harry Potter Book? | Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets | 30. 30. When is Mrs. Reigh’s birthday? Hint: Same day as Katniss Everdeen. | May 8 |
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