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. 1. Sensory and descriptive details help readers visualize information. It shares the who, what, where, when, why, and how of a topic/subject. (Sequence of Events/Descriptive /Cause & Effect) | Descriptive | 2. 2. Chronological texts present events in a sequence from beginning to end. How-To: How-To texts organize the information in a series of directions. (Sequence of Events/Cause & Effect/Problem & Solution) | Sequence of Events | 3. 3. Authors use comparisons to describe ideas to readers. Similarities and differences are shared. (Descriptive /Cause & Effect/Compare & Contrast) | Compare & Contrast | 4. 4. Informational texts often describe cause and effect relationships. The text describes events and identifies reasons (causes) for why the event happened.(Compare & Contrast/Descriptive/Cause & Effect) | Cause & Effect | 5. 5. The text introduces and describes a problem and presents one or more solutions.(Descriptive/Problem & Solution/Sequence of Events) | Problem & Solution | 6. 6. Against (anti-,de-,over-) | anti | 7. 7. Over (sub-, pre-, over-) | over | 8. 8. Below (pre-, de-, sub-) | sub | 9. 9. Before (post-, im-, pre-) | pre | 10. 10. After (im-, post-, under-) | post | 11. 11. Between (intra-, inter-, pre-) | inter | 12. 12. Not (im-, inter-, pre) | -im | 13. 13. Full of (-less, -ful, -ed) | -ful | 14. 14. Without(-ed, -able, -less) | -less | 15. 15. One who (-able, -er, -ful) | -er | 16. 16. Can be done (-less, -er, -able) | able | 17. 17. Comparative (-ed, -less, -er) | er | 18. 18. He hops like a frog (simile, metaphor, alliteration) | simile | 19. 19. She’s got a chip on her shoulder (metaphor, idiom, onomatopoeia) | idiom | 20. 20. Jack jumped joyfully on Jupiter (hyperbole, alliteration, metaphor) | alliteration | 21. 21. I’m so hungry I could eat a horse (simile, personification, hyperbole) | hyperbole | 22. 22. The flowers danced in the wind (personification, metaphor, idiom) | personification | 23. 23. She is a snake (hyperbole, alliteration, metaphor) | metaphor | 24. 24. He is as slow as a turtle (onomatopoeia, simile, hyperbole) | simile | 25. 25. Kapow! (simile, onomatopoeia, alliteration) | onomatopoeia | 26. 26. The people involved in the events of a story | characters | 27. 27. The series of events in a story | plot | 28. 28. When and where a story takes place | setting | 29. 29. The central focus or message of a story | theme | 30. 30. The problem in the story | conflict | 31. 31. A lesson taught in a fable is call the _____________ of the story (conflict, moral, theme) | moral | 32. 32. A problem that takes place within a character (Man vs. man, man vs. nature, man vs. supernatural, man vs. society, internal conflict) | internal conflict | 33. 33. A problem that takes place between 2 or more characters(Man vs. man, man vs. nature, man vs. supernatural, man vs. society, internal conflict) | man vs. man | 34. 34. A problem that takes place between a person and a tornado(Man vs. man, man vs. nature, man vs. supernatural, man vs. society, internal conflict) | man vs. nature | 35. 35. A problem that takes place between a person and something that does not exist in the real world(Man vs. man, man vs. nature, man vs. supernatural, man vs. society, internal conflict) | man vs. supernatural | 36. 36. A problem that takes place between a person and the general public, breaking laws(Man vs. man, man vs. nature, man vs. supernatural, man vs. society, internal conflict) | man vs. society | 37. 37. I went to the store yesterday(1st Person, 2nd Person, 3rd Person Limited, 3rd Person Omniscient) | 1st Person | 38. 38. You must do your homework tonight(1st Person, 2nd Person, 3rd Person Limited, 3rd Person Omniscient) | 2nd Person | 39. 39. He has to work all day today(1st Person, 2nd Person, 3rd Person Limited, 3rd Person Omniscient) | 3rd Person | 40. 40. She is going shopping tonight(1st Person, 2nd Person, 3rd Person Limited, 3rd Person Omniscient) | 3rd Person | 41. 41. A story told by a narrator where the narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of all characters(1st Person, 2nd Person, 3rd Person Limited, 3rd Person Omniscient) | 3rd Person Omniscient | 42. 42. A story told by a narrator where the narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of one character(1st Person, 2nd Person, 3rd Person Limited, 3rd Person Omniscient) | 3rd Person Limited | 43. 43. We are having (meat/meet) for dinner | meat | 44. 44. I am buying a (flower/ flour) for my mother | flower | 45. 45. The teacher does not (accept/except) late work | accept | 46. 46. The girl ate (to, too, two) much candy | too | 47. 47. Make (your, you’re) bed before school please | your | 48. 48. They brought (there, their, they’re) dog to the park yesterday | their | 49. 49. A story that that deals, in part or in whole, with information or events that are not factual, but rather, imaginary (fiction, non-fiction, biography, fable, fairy tale, autobiography, historical fiction, science fiction, drama) | fiction | 50. 50. A detailed description or account of a person's life told by someone other than the person the story is about (fiction, non-fiction, biography, fable, fairy tale, autobiography, historical fiction, science fiction, drama) | biography | 51. 51. A story that is set in the past. The setting is usually real and drawn from history, and often contains actual historical persons, but the main characters tend to be fictional(fiction, non-fiction, biography, fable, fairy tale, autobiography, historical fiction, science fiction, drama) | historical fiction | 52. 52. A fictional story, in prose or verse, that features animals, mythical creatures, plants, inanimate objects or forces of nature as characters and teaches a lesson(fiction, non-fiction, biography, fable, fairy tale, autobiography, historical fiction, science fiction, drama) | fable | 53. 53. A part of a story used to recount events that happened before the story’s primary sequence of events or to fill in important background information (flashback, foreshadowing) | flashback | 54. 54. A detailed description or account of a person's life told by that person (fiction, non-fiction, biography, fable, fairy tale, autobiography, historical fiction, science fiction, drama) | autobiography | 55. 55. A part of a story used to give hints or clues about upcoming events in the story (flashback, foreshadowing) | foreshadowing | 56. 56. A story that that deals with information or events that are factual (fiction, non-fiction, biography, fable, fairy tale, autobiography, historical fiction, science fiction, drama) | non-fiction | 57. 57. A piece of fiction written to be performed, such as a script for a play (fiction, non-fiction, biography, fable, fairy tale, autobiography, historical fiction, science fiction, drama) | drama |
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