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. Define consternated | anxious | 2. The first Greek tragedies were performed at religious festivals to honor this god | Dionysus | 3. This lens of interpretation focuses on the interpretive meaning of the text independent of the author's intention or biography | New Criticism or Formalism | 4. Define admonitory | reprimanding | 5. The repetition of words at the beginning of successive clauses or sentences | anaphora | 6. A run-on line | enjambment | 7. Define pedantic | excessively academic | 8. The purging of emotions | catharsis | 9. The wrong action, error in judgement, or fatal flaw | hamartia | 10. When a description of one kind of sensation produces another | synesthesia | 11. An extended figure of speech that establishes an elaborate comparison | conceit |
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