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. Why is it important to ask students to identify similarities and differences in the content they are learning? | This helps the students structure their understanding of the content. | 2. During the process of asking students to identify similarities and differences what 3 things are the students doing? | Making connections, experience fresh insights, and correct misconceptions. | 3. What does comparing and contrasting mean? | finding the things that are alike in something is comparing and the things that are different is contrasting. | 4. What is classifying? | this is the process of grouping things that are alike into categories based on their characteristics. | 5. What does it mean to create metaphors? | This is the process of identifying a general or basic pattern in a specific topic and then finding another topic that appears to be quite different but that has the same general pattern. | 6. What does it mean to create analogies? | this is the process of identifying relationships between pairs of concepts or identifying relationships between relationships. | 7. How do those previous processes help students? | they help move students from existing knowledge to new knowledge, concrete ideas to abstract ideas, and separate concepts to connected concepts. | 8. What are 2 organizing and brainstorming software mentioned in this chapter? | kidspiration and Inspiration. |
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