QR Challenge: Education in the UK and the US
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. All children must go to school from the age of six. | US
|
2. To get into some state secondary schools, children must pass an exam.2 | UK2
| 3. Only a small minority of children attend private schools.3 | BOTH3
| 4. There are boys-only and girls-only schools.4 | BOTH4
| 5. At some schools, pupils live at the school.5 | BOTH5
| 6. Some children do not go to school.6 | BOTH
| 7. Most state schools make children wear uniforms.7 | UK7
| 8. In the early years of secondary, all pupils have to study maths.8 | BOTH8
| 9. At all schools, pupils are placed in groups according to ability.9 | US9
| 10. There are important exams at age sixteen and at age eighteen.10 | UK10
| 11. The school year consists of two halves.11 | US11
| 12. Students who want to go to university are assessed over four years.12 | US12 |
Education in the UK and the US: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=All-children-must-go-to-school-from-the-age-of-six.
Question 1 (of 12)
Education in the UK and the US: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=To-get-into-some-state-secondary-schools,-children-must-pass-an-exam.2
Question 2 (of 12)
Education in the UK and the US: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Only-a-small-minority-of-children-attend-private-schools.3
Question 3 (of 12)
Education in the UK and the US: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=There-are-boys-only-and-girls-only-schools.4
Question 4 (of 12)
Education in the UK and the US: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=At-some-schools,-pupils-live-at-the-school.5
Question 5 (of 12)
Education in the UK and the US: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Some-children-do-not-go-to-school.6
Question 6 (of 12)
Education in the UK and the US: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Most-state-schools-make-children-wear-uniforms.7
Question 7 (of 12)
Education in the UK and the US: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=In-the-early-years-of-secondary,-all-pupils-have-to-study-maths.8
Question 8 (of 12)
Education in the UK and the US: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=At-all-schools,-pupils-are-placed-in-groups-according-to-ability.9
Question 9 (of 12)
Education in the UK and the US: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=There-are-important-exams-at-age-sixteen-and-at-age-eighteen.10
Question 10 (of 12)
Education in the UK and the US: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=The-school-year-consists-of-two-halves.11
Question 11 (of 12)
Education in the UK and the US: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Students-who-want-to-go-to-university-are-assessed-over-four-years.12
Question 12 (of 12)