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. What is the URL for the KHS Media Center? | http://kestrelheights.org/library/ | 2. What is the name of the media specialist? | Ms. Simmons | 3. Name two ways to get the library web page. | URL and through the Kestrel Heights homepage. | 4. Who is on the current issue of Tennis magazine? | Maria Sharapova | 5. What is the daily fine for overdue books? | 5 cents a day | 6. Go to non-fiction graphic novels (GN ###). Give title of one of the Shakespeare works. | A Mid-Summer Nights Dream, Othello, Romeo and Juliet, and others | 7. Describe the cover of the current DanceSpirit magazine. | Blond lady in pink. | 8. Find calln umbers 378.1. There are approximately 11 books. What do they have in common? | Test prep | 9. Go to book shelves and find 921 OBA. Write down one of the titles of these books. | The Audacity of Hope, others. | 10. Scan ALL the books in the 921 section. What do they have in common? | Biographies. | 11. Find section FIC ALE on the shelf. What is the title of this series? | BorderTown | 12. What hours is the library open? | 7:45am-3:15pm | 13. Look at the new book display. List 2 titles you might want to read. MUST have DIFFERENT answers than your partners. | Title 1 and Title 2. | 14. Go to section 796. List 3 sports found in this section. | Dance, tennis, football, soccer, yoga, etc. | 15. Find the series Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead. What is the 4th book in the series? | Blood Promises | 16. Find Everlost by Neal Shusterman on the shelf. What is the title of the book directly to the left? | Scrawl | 17. Find the Halloween display. List one book you might read | Any title. |
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