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.
Question | Answer |
| 1. Why do the men of Esgaroth destroy the bridges? | So the dragon will not land on them | 2. Why are the people of Esgaroth angry with Thorin? | They believe that he brought this upon them | 3. What is an adventure? Is it something that happens, or is it the way we react to what happens? Can we live without adventures? Is there any "magic" in this book? What about adventures awakens Bilbo's "Tookish" side (pp. 26-28, 30)? What causes his "Baggins" side to reemerge (pp. 30, 38) What is his Baggins side? What about his Tookish side? How are we like Bilbo? | Adventure - an unusual and exciting, typically hazardous, experience or activity. Happens to us since something has to happen for us to react to it, but reactions make you more prone to adventures because choose it or choose to freak out and discourage it. Yes magic, Dwarves and quest itself awakens Tookish side reminders of comfort or missed meals bring back his Baggins side Baggins side timid and practical Tookish side heroic, curious or proud. Bilbo have both sides can live without adventures | 4. What is the important advice that Beorn and Gandalf give about Mirkwood? Why? | To not stray off the trail dangers not even Gandalf knows | 5. What is Bilbo's plan to avoid war? | He didn't have a plan to avoid the Battle of Five-Armies. He slipped on Precious, though, so that no one would see him. Although when the eagles came to their aid, he gave a shout of glee, and it earned him a great rock thrown at his head. He blacked out, and lay there invisible through the rest of the battle. | 6. Why are Bilbo's goods being auctioned? | He had been gone for a year so they thought he was dead having an estate sale | 7. Explain the names that Bilbo gives himself when speaking with Smaug: "I come from under the hill | I am the clue finder, the web-cutter, the stinging fly. I was chosen for the lucky number," etc. (212-213). | 8. At the beginning of the book, it said we'd see if Bilbo gained anything at all. In your opinion did he gained anything? If so what? | Yes an adventure, friends, and treasure | 9. Which would be the greater evil -- the killing of the armies of men, elves, and dwarves by the goblins, or a war between men, elves, and dwarves? Why? | the war of the armies of men, elves, and dwarves because war kills and injures | 10. When Bilbo climbs the tree, why doesn't he see an end to the forest? | He’s in a deep valley |
Why do the men of Esgaroth destroy the bridges? &choe=UTF-8
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Why are the people of Esgaroth angry with Thorin? &choe=UTF-8
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What is an adventure? Is it something that happens, or is it the way we react to what happens? Can we live without adventures? Is there any "magic" in this book? What about adventures awakens Bilbo's "Tookish" side (pp. 26-28, 30)? What causes his "Baggins" side to reemerge (pp. 30, 38) What is his Baggins side? What about his Tookish side? How are we like Bilbo? &choe=UTF-8
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What is the important advice that Beorn and Gandalf give about Mirkwood? Why? &choe=UTF-8
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What is Bilbo's plan to avoid war? &choe=UTF-8
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Why are Bilbo's goods being auctioned? &choe=UTF-8
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Explain the names that Bilbo gives himself when speaking with Smaug: "I come from under the hill &choe=UTF-8
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At the beginning of the book, it said we'd see if Bilbo gained anything at all. In your opinion did he gained anything? If so what? &choe=UTF-8
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Which would be the greater evil -- the killing of the armies of men, elves, and dwarves by the goblins, or a war between men, elves, and dwarves? Why? &choe=UTF-8
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When Bilbo climbs the tree, why doesn't he see an end to the forest? &choe=UTF-8
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