QR Challenge: William Shakespeare Biography
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. "The Bard" |
|
2. Elizabethan Period |
| 3. Stratford-upon-Avon |
| 4. Ann Hathaway |
| 5. 8 years |
| 6. 1580's |
| 7. To write his plays and poems |
| 8. Sonnets |
| 9. 37, 28 |
| 10. 10% |
| 11. Sparse; not much |
| 12. Men/boys |
| 13. All of them |
| 14. They were forced to move because the government thought theater was ungodly and immoral |
| 15. Lord Chamberlain's Men |
| 16. The Kings Men |
| 17. Othello, Macbeth, King Lear |
| 18. His second best bed |
| 19. His word is for all ages because of their themes |
| 20. April 23, 1616 |
| 21. April 26, 1564 | |
William Shakespeare Biography: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text="The-Bard"
Question 1 (of 21)
William Shakespeare Biography: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Elizabethan-Period
Question 2 (of 21)
William Shakespeare Biography: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Stratford-upon-Avon
Question 3 (of 21)
William Shakespeare Biography: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Ann-Hathaway
Question 4 (of 21)
William Shakespeare Biography: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=8-years
Question 5 (of 21)
William Shakespeare Biography: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=1580's
Question 6 (of 21)
William Shakespeare Biography: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=To-write-his-plays-and-poems
Question 7 (of 21)
William Shakespeare Biography: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Sonnets
Question 8 (of 21)
William Shakespeare Biography: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=37,-28
Question 9 (of 21)
William Shakespeare Biography: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=10%
Question 10 (of 21)
William Shakespeare Biography: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Sparse;-not-much
Question 11 (of 21)
William Shakespeare Biography: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Men/boys
Question 12 (of 21)
William Shakespeare Biography: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=All-of-them
Question 13 (of 21)
William Shakespeare Biography: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=They-were-forced-to-move-because-the-government-thought-theater-was-ungodly-and-immoral
Question 14 (of 21)
William Shakespeare Biography: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Lord-Chamberlain's-Men
Question 15 (of 21)
William Shakespeare Biography: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=The-Kings-Men
Question 16 (of 21)
William Shakespeare Biography: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Othello,-Macbeth,-King-Lear
Question 17 (of 21)
William Shakespeare Biography: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=His-second-best-bed
Question 18 (of 21)
William Shakespeare Biography: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=His-word-is-for-all-ages-because-of-their-themes
Question 19 (of 21)
William Shakespeare Biography: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=April-23,-1616
Question 20 (of 21)
William Shakespeare Biography: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=April-26,-1564
Question 21 (of 21)