QR Challenge: Thomas Alleyne\'s English Department QR Quest

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 is the technique where writers put words with the same first letter near each other?	Alliteration
2. What is the surname of the author of \"Of Mice and Men\"?	Steinbeck
3. Which Pevensey child is missing from the list? Peter, Susan, ..., Lucy.	Edmund
4. What is the technique where writers use words that sound the same or have the same ending?	Rhyme
5. What is the collective term for full stops, commas, brackets etc.?	Punctuation
6. What technique has been used in the phrase, \"as fit as a fiddle\"?	Simile
7. What the surname of the teenage spy created by Anthony Horowitz?	Rider
8. What is the first name of the author of, \"To Kill A Mockingbird\"?	Harper
9. Which vowel is used more than any other in the English Language?	E
10. What is the middle name of the author of \"The Sheep-Pig,\" Dick ... Smith?	King
11. What is another term for the writer of a book or poem?	Author
12. The spell Harry Potter might use to disarm an opponent	Expelliarmus

 

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