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 is the smallest bone of your body? | Stapes (stirrup). | 2. Why do we have ear wax? | It protects the ear canal from drying up, cleans canal and keeps insects away. | 3. What percentage of noise induced hearing losses can be prevented with the use of hearing protection? | 99% (will accept 90+). | 4. What British scientist with ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease) uses a voice generating device to communicate? | Stephen Hawking. | 5. Name two sounds that Tweety Bird has trouble saying clearly. | Any two of the sounds ‘k’, ‘th’, ‘s’. | 6. List one alternative to cheering and/or yelling at a sports game to save your voice. | Clapping hands, waving banners, whistling, blowing horns. | 7. What is the manual method of communication used by the deaf? | American Sign Language or sign language. | 8. What is the more familiar word for syntax? | Grammar. | 9. True or False: Interrupting and providing words are two useful strategies for people who have word finding difficulties. | FALSE - try using semantic web, visual imagery and gestures instead. | 10. Name a movie in which a central character has fluency (stuttering) challenges. | ”The King’s Speech” or “A Fish Called Wanda”. |
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