QR Challenge: Best Opening Lines

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. "The early summer sky was the color of cat vomit."	Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
2. “We went to the moon to have fun, but the moon turned out to completely suck.”	Feed by M.T. Anderson
3. "One minute the teacher was talking about the Civil War. And the next minute he was gone. There. Gone. No 'poof.' No flash of light. No explosion."	Gone by Michael Grant
4. "There was a hand in the darkness and it held a knife."	The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
5. "Someone was looking at me, a disturbing sensation if you're dead."	A Certain Slant of Light by Laura Whitcomb
6. "The thing about a cavity search is this: it has nothing to do with the dentist."	Born to Rock by Gordon Korman
7. "Things had been getting a little better until I got a letter from my dead sister. That more or less ruined my day."	Dead Girls Don't Write Letters by Gail Giles
8. "It's the first morning of high school. I have seven new notebooks, a skirt I hate, and a stomachache."	Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
9. "First the colors."	The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
10. "When the doorbell rings at 3 in the morning, it's never good news."	Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz

 

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