QR Challenge: The Flood by Ralph Helfer

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. What is the narrator's (Ralph Helfer's) profession?	an animal trainer
2. What did the narrator do to protect his ranch from flooding?2	Has a 100-foot-wide trench dug through the ranch2
3. What do the narrator and his helpers do when the flood waters rise?3	Free the animals from their cages3
4. What is unique about the flood that hit the ranch?4	The largest one in the area in 100 years4
5. Why are some of the animals less cooperative than others?5	They had been fear trained rather than affection trained5
6. What do the affection-trained animals do once they are released?6	They headed for safety of the higher ground6
7. Was it the affection-trained or fear-trained animals that drowned the most?7	Fear-trained7
8. What will the narrator likely do after the floodwaters drain away?8	Rebuild the ranch with even stronger flood controls8
9. What is the main idea of the selection?9	Working with love and kindness inspires cooperation9
10. What is the author's main purpose for writing the selection?10	To share an important experience from his life10
11. What is frozen in fear?11	petrified11
12. What is an extra force or power to do something?12	leverage12
13. What is a safe place or shelter?13	haven13
14. What means to save from destruction?14	salvage14
15. What is another word for heartbreaking?15	devastating15

 

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