QR Challenge: Roots Scavenger Hunt

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. geo	earth
2. astr	star
3. auto	self
4. bio	life
5. carn	flesh
6. cedceed	go, yield
7. chrom	color
8. chrono	time
9. cidciscide	to cut off, to kill
10. corp	body
11. cosm	world, universe
12. cred	believe
13. dent	tooth
14. derm	skin
15. dict	speak
16. fin	final, finish
17. fort	strong
18. graph	write, draw
19. gress	walk, move
20. ject	throw
21. mal	bad
22. man	hand
23. mar	sea
24. meter	measure
25. micro	small
26. oper	work
27. ped	foot, feet
28. phon	sound
29. photo	light
30. rect	straight, ruled
31. rupt	break, burst
32. scope	see, watch
33. sign	sign, mark
34. spir	breath
35. struct	build
36. tele	far, at a distance
37. terr	earth, land
38. therm	heat, warm
39. tract	draw, pull
40. vent	come
41. vis	see, look

 

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