QR Challenge: The Amazing Poetry Race
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.
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!
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.
Questions / Answers (teacher reference)
Question | Answer |
| 1. A type of image made by comparing two things using the words like or as | simile
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2. Comparing two things by saying that one object is another | metaphor
| 3. Human characteristics are given to non-living things | personification
| 4. Each words begins with the same consonant | alliteration
| 5. The same vowel sounds are repeated | assonance
| 6. The main idea or topic of a poem | theme
| 7. A five line nonsense poem | limerick
| 8. A poem in which the first letter of each line, read downwards, spells a word | acrostic
| 9. The repetition of sounds | rhyme
| 10. The flow and beat of the poem | rhythm
| 11. A collection of poems | anthology
| 12. The person who writes poetry | poet
| 13. A 'naming' word | nouns
| 14. A word that describes a noun | adjective
| 15. A 'doing' word | verb
| 16. A words that tells something about a verb | adverb
| 17. A pair of lines in a poem | couplet
| 18. A poem that is written in the shape of its topic | concrete poem |
The Amazing Poetry Race: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=A-type-of-image-made-by-comparing-two-things-using-the-words-like-or-as
Question 1 (of 18)
The Amazing Poetry Race: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Comparing-two-things-by-saying-that-one-object-is-another
Question 2 (of 18)
The Amazing Poetry Race: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Human-characteristics-are-given-to-non-living-things
Question 3 (of 18)
The Amazing Poetry Race: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Each-words-begins-with-the-same-consonant
Question 4 (of 18)
The Amazing Poetry Race: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=The-same-vowel-sounds-are-repeated
Question 5 (of 18)
The Amazing Poetry Race: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=The-main-idea-or-topic-of-a-poem
Question 6 (of 18)
The Amazing Poetry Race: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=A-five-line-nonsense-poem
Question 7 (of 18)
The Amazing Poetry Race: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=A-poem-in-which-the-first-letter-of-each-line,-read-downwards,-spells-a-word
Question 8 (of 18)
The Amazing Poetry Race: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=The-repetition-of-sounds
Question 9 (of 18)
The Amazing Poetry Race: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=The-flow-and-beat-of-the-poem
Question 10 (of 18)
The Amazing Poetry Race: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=A-collection-of-poems
Question 11 (of 18)
The Amazing Poetry Race: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=The-person-who-writes-poetry
Question 12 (of 18)
The Amazing Poetry Race: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=A-'naming'-word
Question 13 (of 18)
The Amazing Poetry Race: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=A-word-that-describes-a-noun
Question 14 (of 18)
The Amazing Poetry Race: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=A-'doing'-word
Question 15 (of 18)
The Amazing Poetry Race: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=A-words-that-tells-something-about-a-verb
Question 16 (of 18)
The Amazing Poetry Race: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=A-pair-of-lines-in-a-poem
Question 17 (of 18)
The Amazing Poetry Race: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=A-poem-that-is-written-in-the-shape-of-its-topic
Question 18 (of 18)
