QR codes are a super fun way to engage your students and incorporate technology into your classroom. While not all schools are 1:1 with tablets, all of the activities below can be used during small group rotations with whatever number of tablets you might have access to.
QR Code Activity Ideas
For each of the activities below, you will need to:
- Google “free QR code generator” to find a website to create your codes. We usedhttp://goqr.me/
- Install a free QR Code reader app onto the set of tablets. We use the “Quick Scan” app. It is available for free through theApp Store for iPads, and is also free todownload for Android.
#1 Create a Shop
withQR Code Price Tags
- Have students bring in clean boxes, containers, packets and any other items to create a classroom shop.
- Download, print and laminate these awesomeQR Code Price Tags.
- Attach each tag to an item
- Students scan the code to reveal an item’s price.
- You can also download this resource in an editable MS Word document so that you can create your own price tags.
Extension Activity
- Provide students with a scenario and a budget for which they need to shop.
E.g. It is your Mum’s birthday and you need to get food for her party. You have $25 to spend. - Create a table for students to record their “purchases” and track their total spend.
#2 Learning Pop-Up Spots
- Generate QR codes that link to videos, websites or information sheets about the topic or theme.
- Print poster-size codes to use in the centre of a display, or in a special location in the school.
#3 Trip Around the World
- Generate QR codes that when scanned, provide clues about a certain location from around the world.
- Place these around your classroom, or around the school.
- Provide students with a map where they can plot their trip around the world as they work through each of the clues, finding the next location.
# 4作业帮助提示
- Create QR codes that link to the specific strategies or information needed to support student learning.
For example, reading strategies, spelling strategies, or mathematics strategies. - 广告d the QR code to reading folders or homework sheets as an easy way for parents to access information they can use to help their child with their learning at home.
#5 Anatomy of Anything
- Place QR codes on the different parts of a model (e.g. a skeleton, a simple machine or globe).
- Provide students with a variety of definitions on cards or on a worksheet.
- Students scan the QR codes to reveal the name of that part and match the name to the definitions.
#6 Make Your Own Scavenger Hunt
- You can download and print this3-Digit Place Value QR Code Scavenger Hunt.
- Alternatively, create your own using these funQR Code Scavenger Hunt templates. Follow the instructions in our blog post“Making Math Exciting: QR Code Scavenger Hunt!”
#7 Extension Activities Corner
- Create a fast-finishers corner or display where QR codes reveal an extension activity.
- Colour-coordinate the activities for each key learning area.
– For example, codes on green paper reveal numeracy activities, codes on blue paper reveal literacy activities.
#8 Live Worksheets
- Make worksheets live by adding QR codes that take students off the page and onto a relevant website, interactive game or video.
#9 QR Code Cubes
- Use a QR code generator and our3D QR Code Activity Cube Templateto create QR code cubes.
- Each code reveals a different question or activity.
- Create cubes for reflection questions, journal questions, brain break activities or fast-finisher tasks.
We’ve created theseQR Code Comprehension Question cubesusing theSuper Six comprehension strategies!
#10 Digitial Student Work Presentations
- Use a shared space on your school intranet or website where students can upload their completed digital works.
- Generate a QR code for each student’s work.
- Create a display incorporating the codes, where students scan to reveal and view each others’ digital works.
E.g. share book reviews (display a picture of the cover with a QR code that links to a book review).
Here are some favourites from our QR Code resource collection:
