Education Standards
7th grade computer scavenger hunt
8th grade actual scavenger hunt
Scavenger hunt 2019
Scavenger hunt fall 2019
Library Scavenger Hunt
Overview
Students will learn how to use the library automation system. When using the library automation system, students will gather information about how to locate books in the library. Students will then go find the book and get a new clue using a QR reader.
I attached the documents more as a guide so you can see what I have done. Feel free to use them or just use them as a template. I frequently change how I guide the scavenger hunt and of course due to COVID this past year I had to modify the scavenger hunt to just be online. So you will see a couple that say computer. Those are ones we did without moving around in the library. I did book talks and showed book trailers as a way of mixing it up with those students.
When setting up the scavenger hunt, I find it best to lay out the QR codes and scan them in order to ensure students will complete the scavenger hunt before repeating themselves. In the past when I didn't double check that some groups might only find 4 clues before repeating and then it was a scramble to quickly fix the code.
Students love this activity. I allow them to run and actuallly encourage it as a way of creating excitement about the race. Students find this helps them learn the library neighborhoods. My library is genrefied, so the sublocation is the genre or neighborhood where they would find the book.
Students will learn how to search the library automation system and locate books in the library by participating in a library scavenger hunt.
Using a free QR code generator, create clues for books in your library. Try to use clues that allow for different search terms. Clues I have used include things like: Find a book by Adam Rex about a special day, or The War that Saved my Life was written by this author. Students have to answer the questions or fill in the blank, additionally, students need to find the call number of the book and locate the book in the library. Each book used in the scavenger hunt has a QR code on the book with the next clue.
Students work best in pairs for this activity. Students are required to activily participate. The best way to ensure that happens is to give each student a copy of the paper they must complete. Each group starts with a different clue. You will need to create enough clues for your largest group of students. Students might overlap while searching for books based on how much time each group takes to find each book. When a group finds the first clue they started with, they have completed the scavenger hunt.