1. Arrange students into groups. Each group needs at least ONE person who has a mobile device.
2. If their phone camera doesn't automatically detect and decode QR codes, ask students to
4. Cut them out and place them around your class / school.
1. Give each group a clipboard and a piece of paper so they can write down the decoded questions and their answers to them.
2. Explain to the students that the codes are hidden around the school. Each team will get ONE point for each question they correctly decode and copy down onto their sheet, and a further TWO points if they can then provide the correct answer and write this down underneath the question.
3. Away they go! The winner is the first team to return with the most correct answers in the time available. This could be within a lesson, or during a lunchbreak, or even over several days!
4. A detailed case study in how to set up a successful QR Scavenger Hunt using this tool can be found here.
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1. A story about actual events | Narrative Nonfiction | 2. An invented(made up) story that could have happened in real life | Realistic Fiction | 3. A story with characters, settings, or other elements that could not exist in real life | Fantasy | 4. A story that is intended to be performed on a stage | Play | 5. A story that uses facts to explain about real people, things, places, situations, or events | Informational Nonfiction | 6. A story based on the customs and traditions of a people handed down orally from one generation to the next | Folktale | 7. A short story that teaches a moral | Fable | 8. Takes place long ago and have imaginary characters and settings | Fairy Tale | 9. A story in which fictional characters take part in actual historical events | Historical Fiction | 10. The story of a person's life that is written by another person | Biography |
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