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. Technique tries to persuade us to buy a product by promising to give us something else. | Bribery | 2. Technique that is directly, fully, and/or clearly expressed or demonstrated. | Explicit claims | 3. This technique is the opposite of the Association technique. It uses something disliked or feared by the intended audience. | Fear | 4. This technique contains ads that are full of intensifiers, including superlatives, comparatives, hyperbole, and many other ways to hype the product. | Intensity | 5. Unproven, exaggerated or outrageous claims are commonly preceded by \"weasel words\" such as may, might, can, could, some, many, often, virtually, as many as, or up to. | Maybe | 6. This technique works because we may believe a \"regular person\" more than an intellectual or a highly-paid celebrity. | Plain folks | 7. More than exaggeration or hype; it\'s telling a complete falsehood with such confidence and charisma that people believe it. | The Big Lie | 8. Appearing firm, bold, strong, and confident. | Charisma | 9. This technique tries to pacify audiences in order to make an unpleasant reality more palatable. | Euphemism | 10. This technique works by ignoring complexity. | Extrapolation | 11. This uses \"virtue words.\" | Glittering generalities | 12. This is the opposite of the New technique. Evokes a time when a life was easier and supposedly better. | Nostalgia | 13. This is a particular application of the Expert technique. | Scientific evidence | 14. This technique combines Extrapolation and Fear. Instead of predicting a positive future, it warns against a negative outcome. | Slippery slope | 15. Latin for \"against the man,\" the ad hominem technique responds to an argument by attacking the opponent instead of addressing the argument. | Ad hominem | 16. Compares one situation with another. | Analogy | 17. Deliberately provides a false context to give a misleading impression. | Analogy | 18. Babies drink milk. Babies cry. Therefore, drinking milk makes babies cry.This is an example of which technique? | Cause vs. Correlation | 19. This technique is used to escape responsibility for something that is unpopular or controversial. | Denial | 20. This technique diverts our attention from a problem or issue by raising a separate issue, usually one where the persuader has a better chance of convincing us. | Diversions | 21. Is a particularly dangerous form of the Simple Solution technique. This technique blames a problem on one person, group, race, religion, etc. | Scapegoating | 22. This technique builds up an illogical or deliberately damaged idea and presents it as something that one\'s opponent supports or represents. | Straw Man | 23. Ad-campaigns commonly roll out carefully-timed phases to grab our attention, stimulate desire, and generate a response. | Timing |
Technique tries to persuade us to buy a product by promising to give us something else.&choe=UTF-8
Question 1 (of 23)
Technique that is directly, fully, and/or clearly expressed or demonstrated.&choe=UTF-8
Question 2 (of 23)
This technique is the opposite of the Association technique. It uses something disliked or feared by the intended audience.&choe=UTF-8
Question 3 (of 23)
This technique contains ads that are full of intensifiers, including superlatives, comparatives, hyperbole, and many other ways to hype the product.&choe=UTF-8
Question 4 (of 23)
Unproven, exaggerated or outrageous claims are commonly preceded by \"weasel words\" such as may, might, can, could, some, many, often, virtually, as many as, or up to.&choe=UTF-8
Question 5 (of 23)
This technique works because we may believe a \"regular person\" more than an intellectual or a highly-paid celebrity.&choe=UTF-8
Question 6 (of 23)
More than exaggeration or hype; it\'s telling a complete falsehood with such confidence and charisma that people believe it.&choe=UTF-8
Question 7 (of 23)
Appearing firm, bold, strong, and confident.&choe=UTF-8
Question 8 (of 23)
This technique tries to pacify audiences in order to make an unpleasant reality more palatable.&choe=UTF-8
Question 9 (of 23)
This technique works by ignoring complexity.&choe=UTF-8
Question 10 (of 23)
This uses \"virtue words.\"&choe=UTF-8
Question 11 (of 23)
This is the opposite of the New technique. Evokes a time when a life was easier and supposedly better.&choe=UTF-8
Question 12 (of 23)
This is a particular application of the Expert technique.&choe=UTF-8
Question 13 (of 23)
This technique combines Extrapolation and Fear. Instead of predicting a positive future, it warns against a negative outcome.&choe=UTF-8
Question 14 (of 23)
Latin for \"against the man,\" the ad hominem technique responds to an argument by attacking the opponent instead of addressing the argument.&choe=UTF-8
Question 15 (of 23)
Compares one situation with another.&choe=UTF-8
Question 16 (of 23)
Deliberately provides a false context to give a misleading impression.&choe=UTF-8
Question 17 (of 23)
Babies drink milk. Babies cry. Therefore, drinking milk makes babies cry.This is an example of which technique?&choe=UTF-8
Question 18 (of 23)
This technique is used to escape responsibility for something that is unpopular or controversial.&choe=UTF-8
Question 19 (of 23)
This technique diverts our attention from a problem or issue by raising a separate issue, usually one where the persuader has a better chance of convincing us.&choe=UTF-8
Question 20 (of 23)
Is a particularly dangerous form of the Simple Solution technique. This technique blames a problem on one person, group, race, religion, etc.&choe=UTF-8
Question 21 (of 23)
This technique builds up an illogical or deliberately damaged idea and presents it as something that one\'s opponent supports or represents.&choe=UTF-8
Question 22 (of 23)
Ad-campaigns commonly roll out carefully-timed phases to grab our attention, stimulate desire, and generate a response.&choe=UTF-8
Question 23 (of 23)
