Thomas County students engaged in a technology-rich activity to focus on the second grade standard that involves classifying objects by their different properties. Budding scientists in Rosalie Wilson and Ann Quick’s class at Garrison-Pilcher Elementary School participated in a QR code scavenger hunt. Students scanned QR codes using the camera app on their Chromebooks that led them to images of different objects such as: a bumpy pumpkin, a dog, concrete, a swimming pool, or a doughnut.   They then had to describe the texture of the objects in the photos using descriptive words such as rough, bumpy, soft, prickly, and smooth.  To differentiate among the achievement ranges of their students, Wilson and Quick provided a word bank of descriptive words as well as full encouragement for students to come up with descriptive words of their own.  

“At the beginning, students were a little thrown off because they had never used the camera app before,” said Wilson.  

Wilson taught students to place their finger on the QR code they wanted to scan as a way to help guide the code into the view of the camera; that way, they wouldn't accidentally scan the wrong code and write their answers in the wrong box. Wilson reported that the students caught on very quickly and loved it.

“They liked clicking the link and being surprised by what the picture was,” added Wilson.

GP QR Hunt 1: George Green and London Mobley as well as Brooklyn Mitchell and Hailie Woodell paired up to find images with QR codes.  

GP QR Hunt 2: Jasper Sadler and Jillian Blodgett carefully line up their codes to complete their scavenger hunt to describe and classify objects based on their surface textures.