QR Challenge: Man’s Best Friend (Or at Least Weedon Scott’s): the Wolf

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 does White Fang refer to humans as and why?	White Fang refers to humans as gods because they “made inanimate objects do their bidding” and “created life” (wielded weapons and created fire)
2. What animals did White Fang encounter on his first time venturing out of the cave?	On his first outing, White Fang encountered a family of ptarmigans (mother and chicks), a squirrel, a hawk (which he only saw, and didn’t interact with), and two weasels (mother and pup)
3. Who was Beauty Smith and how did he acquire White Fang?	Beauty Smith was a white settler, a cook, who took a special interest in White Fang. He conned Gray Beaver into trading him by getting him addicted to alcohol to the point where the drunkard had to sell White Fang for more.
4. Why is it so hard for White Fang to show affection?	It’s hard for White Fang to show affection because all his life he was never loved by anyone. His other owners beat him to instill obedience and submission into him. Since he was mostly wolf, the other pups at the Indian campsite hadn’t accepted him and tormented him every chance they got.
5. Who was Jim Hall and why does he hate Judge Scott?	Jim Hall was a man wrongfully sentenced to fifty years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit unknowingly by Judge Scott. Hall believed that the police were railroading him to prison, and that Scott had taken part in the scheme by his own conscious volition.

 

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