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.
Question | Answer |
| 1. Write two couplets (4 lines) with a heroic theme. Keep those moody heroes a la Byron in mind. | couplet | 2. Keep on keepin’ on with those 4 line poems. Write a quatrain, and think of spring. | quatrain | 3. Springtime makes such a great topic for a haiku! Write your haiku, then move to the land of the rising sun. | haiku | 4. Tankas aren’t just trucks! Write one about technology, then move on to the 21st Century. | Tanka | 5. You found me not eating my shoe, since I’m not from Peru. But the next code might be there. | limerick | 6. That journey to South America was fun. But let’s move to back to Asia to write a pantoum. | pantoum | 7. Up on a rooftop, that’s where you’ll find the next form. But while we’re here on top of this villa, let’s write a villanelle. | villanelle | 8. Speaking of Italian villas, Italy was an excellent setting according to Shakespeare. To honor him, let’s write a sonnet. | sonnet | 9. But enough with these poets! Let’s have some literature. Maybe some by a man who was paid by the word. Choose your words carefully as you combine prose and verse. | prose poem | 10. Now you’re free! Write a poem about something you love back at your desk. | free verse |
Write two couplets (4 lines) with a heroic theme. Keep those moody heroes a la Byron in mind.&choe=UTF-8
Question 1 (of 10)
Keep on keepin’ on with those 4 line poems. Write a quatrain, and think of spring.&choe=UTF-8
Question 2 (of 10)
Springtime makes such a great topic for a haiku! Write your haiku, then move to the land of the rising sun.&choe=UTF-8
Question 3 (of 10)
Tankas aren’t just trucks! Write one about technology, then move on to the 21st Century.&choe=UTF-8
Question 4 (of 10)
You found me not eating my shoe, since I’m not from Peru. But the next code might be there.&choe=UTF-8
Question 5 (of 10)
That journey to South America was fun. But let’s move to back to Asia to write a pantoum.&choe=UTF-8
Question 6 (of 10)
Up on a rooftop, that’s where you’ll find the next form. But while we’re here on top of this villa, let’s write a villanelle.&choe=UTF-8
Question 7 (of 10)
Speaking of Italian villas, Italy was an excellent setting according to Shakespeare. To honor him, let’s write a sonnet.&choe=UTF-8
Question 8 (of 10)
But enough with these poets! Let’s have some literature. Maybe some by a man who was paid by the word. Choose your words carefully as you combine prose and verse.&choe=UTF-8
Question 9 (of 10)
Now you’re free! Write a poem about something you love back at your desk.&choe=UTF-8
Question 10 (of 10)
