QR Challenge: Jazz Musicians Scavenger Hunt

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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. Who taught at Julliard School of Music and who attended Julliard School of Music for a brief period of time?	Benny Goodman and Miles Davis
2. What instrument did Miles Davis Play?	Trumpet
3. Who was Miles Davis' mentor?	Charlie Parker
4. What instruments did Dizzy learn to play as a child?	Trumpet, trombone, cornet, piano
5. Who are the "Fathers of the fast and furious" style of Jazz?	Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, and Thelonious Monk
6. Who is the "King of Swing"?	Benny Goodman
7. Who was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom?	Duke Ellington
8. Who was one of the first male scat singers?	Louis Armstrong
9. Who started a band while enlisted in the military?	Glenn Miller
10. What two instruments did Count Basie play?	Drums and piano
11. Who played for their high school dances?	Duke Ellington
12. Who combined Afro-Cuban Rhythms and Jazz?	Dizzy Gillespie
13. Who received a trumpet from their dad?	Miles Davis
14. What instrument did Charlie Parker play?	Alto Saxophone
15. Who played the clarinet?	Benny Goodman
16. Who played the trombone?	Glenn Miller