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. What does "mono" mean? | 2. Use the suffix "al" in a word. | 3. What does the Latin root "spect" mean? Give me an example. | 4. What does the suffix "able/ible" mean? | 5. What is the prefix in "reheat"? What does it mean? | 6. With the root "astr", what do you think "astronomy" means? | 7. This is a noun that means "the time order in which events occur" (covert or chronology)? | 8. In the word "auditorium", what is the root word, and what does it mean? | 9. This adjective means "free from germs that cause illness" (conscious or sanitary). What is the root? | 10. Why is it important to know Greek and Latin affixes? |
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