{"id":4211,"date":"2011-08-22T20:16:56","date_gmt":"2011-08-23T03:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ilearntechnology.com\/?p=4211"},"modified":"2011-08-22T20:16:56","modified_gmt":"2011-08-23T03:16:56","slug":"make-your-own-qr-code-scavenger-hunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ilearntechnology.com\/?p=4211","title":{"rendered":"Make your own QR Code Scavenger Hunt!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Today was the first day of school.  Ever.  It was pretty epic.  Since the students didn’t know where things were located in the building yet, I thought we would have some fun locating them with a QR code scavenger hunt.  It was SO easy to do, I thought I would share the process here.<\/p>\n

1.  First I made a new website where each page of the website contained a clue.  I made my site with Weebly.com<\/a> because it is SO easy to use.  I made the entire site in under 10 minutes.<\/p>\n

2. Next I used goo.gl<\/a> URL shortener to shorten the URL of each webpage and generate a QR code.  Just copy and paste the long Weebly URL into the goo.gl<\/a> shortener and voila. A short Googlefied (that is a technical term) URL.  Click on “Details” next to the shortened URL to view your QR code.  I just dragged and dropped these QR codes into a Pages document so that they were all in one place for easy printing\/copying.<\/p>\n

3.  Print out QR code sheet and make enough copies for each classroom.  Because we have a 10-1 student-teacher ratio, I made up 10 clues to find.  Each student was in charge of one clue.  I cut up the QR code sheet so that each student had a little QR code clue card.<\/p>\n

4.  Set students out on their mission.  Each student takes a turn using the Scan app<\/a> to uncover the clue.  They read the clue out loud to their group and brainstorm what the answer could be.  When they thought they had the answer, they went to that place and took a picture of it using the camera app.  For example, one of our clues was: “The Grub Hub”, students went down to the kitchen and took a picture.<\/p>\n

5.  When all pictures have been collected, students gather and add up the points they won.<\/p>\n

*Below is my example of the QR code and website they were connected to.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

This was a really easy activity to prepare for from a teacher perspective.  The impact was huge with the students.  They had a great time with this!<\/p>\n

We used this hunt as a way for students to familiarize themselves with the layout of the new school but it would also be a great activity for a math scavenger hunt “Find an item that represents three times four”, or colors in art “This is the color you get when you mix yellow and blue”, or literature “find an object that represents this character in our novel”.  The list could go on and on if you use your imagination!  The QR codes are so easy to generate, students could use these for almost anything!
\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today was the first day of school.  Ever.  It was pretty epic.  Since the students didn’t know where things were located in the building yet, I thought we would have some fun locating them with a QR code scavenger hunt.  It was SO easy to do, I thought I would share the process here. 1. …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2486,9,209,3054,220,308,13,135,111,4,31,197,7,768,8,67,590],"tags":[4701,41,3531,137,4708,3530,3532,4703],"class_list":["post-4211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-analyze-blooms","category-art","category-character-education","category-classroom-management-for-teachers","category-collaboration","category-fun-games","category-geography","category-history","category-inspiration","category-language-arts","category-math","category-middlehigh-school","category-primary-elementary","category-professional-development","category-secondary-elementary","category-teacher-resources","category-web-tools","tag-art","tag-books","tag-goo-gl","tag-literature","tag-math","tag-qr-code","tag-scavenger-hunt","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ilearntechnology.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ilearntechnology.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ilearntechnology.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilearntechnology.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilearntechnology.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4211"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilearntechnology.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4215,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilearntechnology.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4211\/revisions\/4215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ilearntechnology.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilearntechnology.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilearntechnology.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}