QR Challenge: Nancy Drew: The Secret of the Black Roses

Created using the ClassTools QR Treasure Hunt Generator

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.

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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!

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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.

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Questions / Answers (teacher reference)

Question	Answer
1. Who was Nancy excited to see?	Pippa Shaw
2. What play did Nancy want to see?	The Monkey Puzzle by Dame Gwyneth Davies
3. What happened during dinner that put Nancy Drew on the case?	An arrow lands in front of her What note was attached to it?
4. What are dons?	Oxford professors
5. How did they think Dame Gwyneth Davies died?	Natural causes since died in sleep @ 75 years old Who was Miss Innes?
6. What was the Puzzlers?	A club made up of members who knew how to use their minds had philosophers, mathematicians, scientists, Miss Innes (medieval history don), and Dame Gwyneth Davies (writer and philosophy don) only 2 women
7. What would they do?	Make up complex riddles and logical problems to confound each other also scavenger hunts (Dame Gwyneth Davies wrote about the scavenger hunt in 1 of her books)
8. Why is Miss Innes in a wheelchair?	a riding accident

 

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