Designing a Scavenger Hunt
1. randomly placing six pieces of masking tape on the floor of the classroom.
2. Mark letters A through F on the tape pieces.
3. Identify six places in the room that you wish to be destinations for the scavenger hunt. Some ideas include the
trash can, recycle bin, pencil sharpener, light switch, and flag. An alternative is to hide objects such as stickers or
small toys at various locations. Start with letter A and measure out a path to get from A to one of the destinations.
Directions can be written in sentence form or as coordinates (x,y).
4. Write a question relating to the destination. It may be helpful to tell students the direction to face once they have
reached a destination.
5. Directions in sentence form can contain more than two legs of the path to go around obstacles.
Sample Card 1
 Start at point A.
 Walk 4.25 m in the positive x direction.
 Walk 1.4 meters in the negative y direction.
 Look in the positive x direction.
 When do you come to this location?
[Ends up at pencil sharpener.]
Sample Card 2
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Start at point B
Walk to (-3.5, +4.1)
Look in the positive y direction.
You use this equipment to measure an object's ____________.
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[Ends up at a triple beam balance.]
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Start at position A
Walk 1.9 meters in +y direction
Walk 7.5 meters in the x direction.
Walk 3 meters in the y direction.
What is at this location?
What direction are you facing?
Start at position D
Walk (-3, -5) meters
Where are you?
Walk ( 5.5, 3.3)
Look in the + y direction. What direction are you
facing?
6. What do you see?
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Start at position E
Walk 4.1 meters – y direction
Walk 3.5 meters X direction
Look in the + x direction. What direction
are you facing?
5. What do you see?
Start at position B
Walk (9.4, -3.7)
Walk (-1, -6)
What direction are you facing?
What do you see?
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Start at position C
Walk 4.8 meters – y direction
Walk 13.8 meters X direction
Walk 1.2 m in the y direction.
What is the closest thing to this position?
Look in the –y direction. What do you see?
What direction are you facing?
Start at position F
Walk (7.2, -8.2)
Walk (-2.8, 2.8)
Look in the - y direction. What direction are you
facing and what do you see?
5. Look in the x direction. What direction are you
facing and what do you see?
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Start at position I
Walk 1.5 meters y direction
Walk 6.5 meters -x direction
Walk 1.2 m in the y direction.
What is the closest thing to this position?
Look in the –x direction. What do you
see?
7. What direction are you facing?
Start at position G
Walk (7.2, -8.2)
Walk (-2.8, 2.8)
Look in the - y direction. What direction are you
facing and what do you see?
5. Look in the x direction. What direction are you
facing and what do you see?