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. Use of understatement. | Indirectness | 2. Asking people to call you by your first name. | Informality | 3. Taking off from work to attend the funeral of an aunt. | Centrality of family | 4. Not helping the person next to you on an exam. | Self‑reliance | 5. Disagreeing openly with someone at a meeting. | Directness | 6. Not laying off an older worker whose performance is weak. | Respect for age | 7. At a meeting, agreeing with a suggestion you think is wrong. | Saving face | 8. Asking a supervisor’s opinion of something you're the expert on. | Deference to authority | 9. Accepting, without question, that something cannot be changed. | External control |
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