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. What color is the sign in sheet and the bathroom sign out sheet? | orange and pink | 2. | 3. What is the process to sign up for Flex? | Bring a pass to your academic teacher, have them sign it, and bring it back to the media center by 8:30. | 4. | 5. What are three magazines that look most interesting to you? | American History, Consumer Reports, National Geographic, National Geographic Travel, Parents, Psychology Today, Seventeen, Smithsonian, Field and Stream, Health, People, Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Scientific American, Time, Make, Money. | 6. | 7. New books are organized by genre on the curvy bookshelf in the front of the media center. Write the title of a new book you’d like to read. | 8. | 9. The makerspace is a place in the media center you can go to create and invent. Write down one of the kits or items in the makerspace that you’d like to play with. | 10. | 11. Fiction books are organized alphabetically by author’s last name. Write down the title of a book authored by someone whose last name begins with A and someone whose last name begins with Z. All fiction books have a spine label that says FIC | 12. | 13. Non-fiction books are organized by the Dewey Decimal System which is based on topic. Look at the white signs on the top of each shelf. All nonfiction books have a spine label with a 3 digit number and sometimes numbers after the decimal place. Which “hundreds” includes world languages and dictionaries? | 400’s | 14. | 15. What is the title of the book with a spine label 808.3 MAJ? | This is not a writing manual. | 16. | 17. What is the title of the book with a spine label FIC FOM | Vango | 18. | 19. Graphic novels and manga is located by the overhead projector screen in the back of the media center. All graphic novels have a spine label with GRA. What is the title of the book with a spine label GRA 920 BEL? | Baby’s in Black | 20. | 21. | 22. Knowing what you do about books with spine labels that include 3 digit numbers, what do you know about the book labeled GRA 920 BEL? | It is nonfiction | 23. | 24. College and Career books are all marked with what color sticker? | Yellow | 25. | 26. The Free Library is by the main doors of the media center. Books on these shelves do not have to be checked out or returned. You are welcome to donate high – school appropriate books to the Free Library. What else can you donate on the bottom shelf of the free library? | Markers |
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