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. If you smell something when you walk in a room, you ____ a scent. | detect | 2. Our class is _____ focused on academic reading and writing skills. | primarily | 3. Our room is big enough to ____ more than 15 students. | accommodate | 4. The police are supposed to ____ the laws. | enforce | 5. These two verbs mean to show. | display, convey | 6. This adjective describes something which has an unclear meaning. | ambiguous | 7. This adjective describes two or more things that cannot fit together. | incompatible | 8. This adjective means always active or changing. | dynamic | 9. This adjective means equal to. | equivalent | 10. This adjective means less important. | subordinate | 11. This adjective means objective and not taking sides. | neutral | 12. This adjective means similar. | analogous | 13. This adjective means that something is basic. | fundamental | 14. This adjective means the same as. | identical | 15. This adjective refers to an agreement. | mutual | 16. This adjective refers to an early finding. | preliminary | 17. This adjective refers to something happening now and over a period of time. | ongoing | 18. This adjective refers to something less important. | marginal | 19. This adjective refers to something that is almost real. | virtual | 20. This adjective refers to the cause or reason for something else. | underlying | 21. This adjective refers to the lowest possible amount. | minimal | 22. This adjective that explains something you can’t touch can also be a noun that means the summary of a journal article. | abstract | 23. This adverb refers to something basically true about something. | inherently | 24. This can be a preposition, a conjunction, or an adverb. | notwithstanding | 25. This is what a judge shouldn’t be. | biased | 26. This is what you do when someone is talking but you are playing on your phone. | ignore | 27. This noun describes a mechanical tool. | device | 28. This noun describes a motivating factor. | incentive | 29. This noun has several meanings, one of which is the combination of subject and verb. | clause | 30. This noun is another word for idea. | notion | 31. This noun refers to a personal belief or opinion. | perspective | 32. This noun refers to an occurrence or happening. | incidence | 33. This noun refers to how much / many something can possibly hold. | capacity | 34. This noun refers to something important that needs to be done. | priority | 35. This noun refers to the difference between two things. | deviation | 36. This noun refers to the personal decision and reasoning for doing something you would otherwise not do. | rationalization | 37. This noun refers to the space/possibility for doing something. | scope | 38. This refers to a break or the in-between time. | interval | 39. This verb describes the parts of a thing. | comprise | 40. This verb means to change slowly. | evolve | 41. This verb means to convince someone to do something they don’t like, nor will they benefit from it, because you will benefit. | manipulate | 42. This verb means to help something work. | facilitate | 43. This verb means to infer. | deduce | 44. This verb means to make two things become one. | unify | 45. This verb refers to the act of deciding how much money/time/resources will be given to a project. | allocate | 46. What is the noun form of “discrete”? | discretion | 47. What is the noun form of “enhance”? | enhancement | 48. What is the noun form of “expand”? | expansion | 49. What is the noun form of “expose”? | exposure | 50. What is the noun form of “mature”? | maturity | 51. What is the noun form of “presume”? | presumption | 52. What is the noun form of “publish”? | publication | 53. What is the noun form of “pursue”? | pursuit | 54. What is the noun form of “transmit”? | transmission | 55. What is the noun form of “unstable”? | instability | 56. What is the verb form of “devotion”? | devote | 57. What is the verb form of “excess”? | exceed | 58. What is the verb form of “sustenance”? | sustain | 59. When you recognize someone, you usually wave or nod your head to _____ them. | acknowledge |
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