KS1 Maths Scavenger Hunt (1)

The Hunt Is On! Children love the competition of a scavenger hunt with a Maths twist, and it’s also a great way to encourage outside-the-box thinking. This is a truly versatile format that can slot into your lesson whatever age and topic you’re planning for. And don’t despair if the weather takes a turn for the worse. The hunts can easily be adapted to an indoor setting.

A scavenger hunt is a game that is usually played in pairs or a small team, that takes place in a large area – for instance, your school grounds. The teacher will give each of the teams a pre-prepared list of objects that need to be found in that area. With a twist on the usual game, many of these maths hunts will ask children to find and then photograph, or draw, what they have found for each of the items on the list.

In Year One and Year Two, the scavenger hunts focus on measure, using some of the vocabulary that children are expected to use (for example, longer, shorter, full and empty) and, for Year Two, the standard units of measure. These hunts are a good way to assess children’s understanding of new terms as well as their ability to measure accurately in a range of contexts. It can be useful to place a helper in a central spot of your school grounds so that children can check the meaning of any word they are unsure of. Having cameras that the children can use is also a good way for the children to accurately record what they have found, rather than drawing pictures, as for many of the answers they won’t be able to bring the objects to you!

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