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 slithery snake sneaked stealthily. Name the poetry. | alliteration | 2. bang, beep, boom, buzz, chirp, chug, clang, clatter, cluck, creak. Name the poetry2 | onomatopoeia2 | 3. A three-lined form of poetry that captures a moment in nature in a five-seven-five syllable pattern3 | haiku3 | 4. Humorous poem with lines 1, 2, and 5 that rhyme and lines 3 and 4 rhyme4 | limerick4 | 5. This kind of poem can be written in different ways, but the simplest form is to put the letters that spell your subject down the side of your paper5 | acrostic5 | 6. This poem is 5 lines, one way is a word pattern with the first line being a noun6 | cinquain6 | 7. A figure of speech that makes an indirect comparison between things using like or as7 | simile7 | 8. A figure of speech that makes a direct comparison between two things8 | metaphor8 | 9. A figure of speech that gives human characteristics to things that are not human9 | personification9 | 10. What kind of poem do you like10 |
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