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. The highest point of action in a text | climax | 2. When the author has their readers on the edge of their seats | suspense | 3. An idea or expression that has become tired from overuse | cliche | 4. The way an author creates characters within a story to make them seem real to the reader; included the development of the character's apperarance, background, feelings, thoughts | characterization | 5. When the author tells the reader directly about the character | direct characterization | 6. when the author shows the character in action and lets readers draw their own conclusions | indirect characterization | 7. sequence of events in a text | plot | 8. conversation between two or more characters | dialogue | 9. the overall feeling created by an author's choice of words | mood | 10. the speaker who tells the story | narrator | 11. the perspective the author establishes to tell the story | point of view | 12. when the narrator particpates in the action of the story | first person | 13. the narrator does not particpate in the action of the story; may be classified as Omniscient or limited | third person | 14. the main character in a literary work | protagonist | 15. harsh or bitter verbal irony in what one is saying | sarcasm | 16. the environment or surroundins in which a story takes place; included time, place and situation in which the characters are placed | setting | 17. something concrete, such as a person, object, image, word, or event that represents something abstract | symbolism | 18. the story's main idea or message | theme | 19. the name of the selection | title | 20. the author's attitude towards the subject that he/she is writing about such as anger or approval, pride or piety | tone | 21. the originator or creator of a piece of work, especially written | author |
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