QR Challenge: Real or Fake?

Created using the ClassTools QR Treasure Hunt Generator

Teacher Notes

A. Prior to the lesson:

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

• Download a QR reader (e.g. I-Nigma | NeoReader | Kaywa) onto their mobile devices
• Bring these devices into the lesson.

3. Print out the QR codes.

4. Cut them out and place them around your class / school.

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B. The lesson:

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!

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C. TIPS / OTHER IDEAS

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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Questions / Answers (teacher reference)

Question	Answer
1. 1) Is this image real or fake?	(Real)Bears do get big. This photo was taken in October 2001 in Alaska.
2. 2) Is this image real or fake?	(Fake)The book in President Bush's hand has been digitally turned upside down.
3. 3) Is this image real or fake?	(Fake)The shark was digitally inserted into a U.S. Air Force photo taken near San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge.
4. 4) Is this image real or fake?	(Fake) The plane has been digitally inserted into this picture of a tourist posing on the observation deck of the World Trade Center. The plane is not the same model as the ones that crashed into the towers.
5. 5) Is this image real or fake?	(Real)A real, unaltered photo taken by photographer Kurt Jones on April 19, 2003. But that's a dolphin in the wave... not a shark!

 

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