QR Code Scavenger Hunt

Ever wonder what these crazy black and white icons are on products and advertisements? These funny looking pictures are called QR Codes (Quick Response Codes), and they can be scanned to directly link to websites, videos, photos, or information of your choice. Armed with a QR Code scanner on your device, you can take a picture of these codes to save items to your phone, computer, etc. The QR Code eliminates the need to write down things or try to remember them for later. Whatever you scan is automatically bookmarked and saved to your device. Try it out! Download a scanner and try scanning the code on the right side of our blog or above. It will save this blog to your device!

Scanning a QR Code with his QR Code reader.

 

First graders in Mrs. Ralstin's room recently used QR Codes and their scanners to complete a digital scavenger hunt to review their nouns and verbs. Students scanned codes posted around the room. Each code was directly linked to a word. The students then took the words they scanned and categorized them into nouns or verbs. The lesson also helped them practice reading sight words and using phonics skills to sound out words that were unfamiliar.

 

Scanning QR Codes around the room.

 

Checking the scanning history.

Looking through his scanning history to categorize words into nouns and verbs.

 

Other ideas to use QR Codes in your classroom:

• Put QR codes on your read alouds and link that QR Code to the author's website or a video of the book.
• Put QR codes on biographys and link the code to more information about that person.
• Put QR codes on parent letters you send home that link directly to your webpage or email.
• Put QR codes on items around the room to help younger students learn the words associated with the objects when they are scanned.
• Put QR codes on items around the room and link them to the Spanish word for that object for students to enhance their second language skills.
• Put QR codes on homework, and when scanned the code would link to a helpful video tutorial to assist the kids in solving that problem.
• Put the answers to problems in a QR Code. When finished with a problem, have students scan and check their work.
• Have QR codes give hints or clues to solve a mystery.
• Have QR codes link to photos, place them around the school to help new students learn their way around.