Creating a QR Code Hunt

Use QR code scavenger hunts to engage students with discipline specific apps, problem-solving activities, hands-on learning, and peer-collaboration, all while having fun too! Lots of planning is involved in creating a scavenger hunt. We’ll be taking you through a behind the scenes look at the processes we use to create scavenger hunts. The more organized you are before the hunt, the better it will be for your participants.

Scavenger Hunt Components

Purpose: What is the purpose of your scavenger hunt?
1. Subject specific apps
2. Teach objectives
3. Integrate mobile devices
Type: What Type of Scavenger Hunt is it? Is there a theme?
1. List of objects to find
2. Fact finding
3. Solving a problem
4. Completing tasks
5. Photographing
6. Videoing
7. Audio Recording
Locations(s): Where will the hunt take place? What are the boundaries?
1. Inside
2. Outside
3. (1) Classroom
4. Multiple rooms
Participants: Who else will be involved? Do you need judges?
1. No one
2. Principal
3. Teacher(s)
4. Librarian
5. Nurse
6. Other
Structure: How do you want this to work?
1. Synchronous (a class period)
2. Asynchronous (posters around the school)
3. Teams
4. Individual
5. Time limit
6. Participant Safety
7. Scoring
8. Rules
9. How to win
List Submissions: How do you want to receive the completed tasks?

Handed in piece of paper
Email

Now that we have our components, we need to know the specifics of creating a QR code scavenger hunt.

Rebekah leads you through this final step in her video lecture.

I’d like to end this section with a few pictures from the presentation I did about QR Code Scavenger Hunts at the Technology Applications Teachers Network Conference this year, held in Austin, TX.


1) Teacher Prep! QR Code scavenger hunt items—instructor's cheat sheet of each code.		2) QR codes posted around the room link to items that groups will need to collect from their own personal belongings.

3) Participant Directions on the Screen		4) Start Scanning!

5) Participants scan QR hunt clues posted around the room		6) Participants scanning the QR clues.