QR Challenge: Fat Men from Space
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.
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!
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.
Questions / Answers (teacher reference)
Question | Answer |
| 1. A dentist is | NN
|
2. A filling is | MMM
| 3. An invasion is | mmm
| 4. To receive is | MMM
| 5. To stay tuned is to | NNN
| 6. A station is a place that | mmm
| 7. A spaceman is | nnnnn
| 8. How does William learn about the fat men in space? | mmm
| 9. After the fat men fall to earth, they….. | sss
| 10. What effect does the invasion have on Earth? | mmmm
| 11. Which words help you imagine what William hears | mmm
| 12. What is one reason the author wrote this story? | mmm
| 13. Why did fat men come to Earth? | mmm
| 14. Why were people in panic when there was only lean meat, fish, fruit, and vegetables to eat? | jjj
| 15. Suppose you could send a message to the fat men from space. What would you say? Why? | mmm |
Fat Men from Space: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=A-dentist-is
Question 1 (of 15)
Fat Men from Space: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=A-filling-is
Question 2 (of 15)
Fat Men from Space: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=An-invasion-is
Question 3 (of 15)
Fat Men from Space: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=To-receive-is
Question 4 (of 15)
Fat Men from Space: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=To-stay-tuned-is-to
Question 5 (of 15)
Fat Men from Space: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=A-station-is-a-place-that
Question 6 (of 15)
Fat Men from Space: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=A-spaceman-is
Question 7 (of 15)
Fat Men from Space: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=How-does-William-learn-about-the-fat-men-in-space?
Question 8 (of 15)
Fat Men from Space: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=After-the-fat-men-fall-to-earth,-they…..
Question 9 (of 15)
Fat Men from Space: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=What-effect-does-the-invasion-have-on-Earth?
Question 10 (of 15)
Fat Men from Space: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Which-words-help-you-imagine-what-William-hears
Question 11 (of 15)
Fat Men from Space: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=What-is-one-reason-the-author-wrote-this-story?
Question 12 (of 15)
Fat Men from Space: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Why-did-fat-men-come-to-Earth?
Question 13 (of 15)
Fat Men from Space: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Why-were-people-in-panic-when-there-was-only-lean-meat,-fish,-fruit,-and-vegetables-to-eat?
Question 14 (of 15)
Fat Men from Space: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Suppose-you-could-send-a-message-to-the-fat-men-from-space.--What-would-you-say?-Why?
Question 15 (of 15)
