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.
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| 1. What is a simile? | Figurative language that compares two unlike things using like or as | 2. What is a metaphor?2 | Figurative language that compares two unlike things but does not use like or as2 | 3. Which of the following is an example of a simile? A. It is raining cats and dogs. B. My bed is as soft as a cloud. C. The playground is a zoo.3 | B. My bed is as soft as a cloud.3 | 4. Which of the following is an example of a metaphor? A. The chair is a rock. B. The sky is as blue as the ocean. C. Break a leg.4 | A. The chair is a rock.4 | 5. I got to the lock room, and IT WAS A ZOO! What two things are being compared in this metaphor?5 | The locker room and a zoo5 | 6. MY KNEES SHOOK LIKE AN EARTHQUAKE. This simile suggests that the speaker is very what? A. cranky B. excited C. happy D. nervous6 | nervous6 | 7. What does the metaphor THE OCEAN WAS A BOTTOMLESS PIT mean? A. The ocean was blue. B. All pits are oceans. C. The ocean was deep. D. All pits are bottomless.7 | C. The ocean was deep.7 | 8. What two things are being compared in the following simile? THE SKY WAS AS BLACK AS A CROW’S WING. A. the color black and a crow’s wing B. the sky and the color black C. the sky and a crow’s wing D. the color black and all colors8 | C. the sky and a crow’s wing8 | 9. Write your own example of a simile. Illustrate it.9 | Answers will vary.9 | 10. Write your own example of a metaphor. Illustrate it.10 | Answers will vary.10 |
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Which of the following is an example of a simile? A. It is raining cats and dogs. B. My bed is as soft as a cloud. C. The playground is a zoo.3&choe=UTF-8
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Which of the following is an example of a metaphor? A. The chair is a rock. B. The sky is as blue as the ocean. C. Break a leg.4&choe=UTF-8
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I got to the lock room, and IT WAS A ZOO! What two things are being compared in this metaphor?5&choe=UTF-8
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MY KNEES SHOOK LIKE AN EARTHQUAKE. This simile suggests that the speaker is very what? A. cranky B. excited C. happy D. nervous6&choe=UTF-8
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What does the metaphor THE OCEAN WAS A BOTTOMLESS PIT mean? A. The ocean was blue. B. All pits are oceans. C. The ocean was deep. D. All pits are bottomless.7&choe=UTF-8
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What two things are being compared in the following simile? THE SKY WAS AS BLACK AS A CROW’S WING. A. the color black and a crow’s wing B. the sky and the color black C. the sky and a crow’s wing D. the color black and all colors8&choe=UTF-8
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Write your own example of a simile. Illustrate it.9&choe=UTF-8
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Write your own example of a metaphor. Illustrate it.10&choe=UTF-8
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