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. The music returns to the main tempo (speed) after there has been a change. | A Tempo | 2. The tempo (speed) of the music gradually becomes faster. | Accelerando | 3. The notes which appear before the first strong beat of a musical phrase, particularly at the start of a piece. | Anacrusis | 4. A form in which the music is made up of two different sections labelled A and B. | Binary | 5. A passage at the end of a piece of music which rounds it off effectively. | Coda | 6. The music gradually becomes louder. | Crescendo | 7. The music gradually becomes quieter. | Diminuendo | 8. Texture where melody is heard with accompaniment or where all the parts play a similar rhythm at the same time. | Homophonic | 9. Where the melody is immediately copied in another part. | Imitation | 10. The performer makes up music during the actual performance. They don’t have the melody written down to help, although there may be suggested chords as a guide. This is an important feature of jazz and popular music. | Improvisation | 11. In popular music, a section which provides a contrast to the opening section. It is often eight bars long. | Middle 8 | 12. A change of key during a piece. | Modulation | 13. Changing the pitch of a note, for example by pushing a guitar string upwards. | Pitch Bend | 14. An instruction given to string players to pluck the strings instead of using the bow. | Pizzicato | 15. Texture which consists of two or more melodic lines, possibly of equal importance, which weave independently of each other. | Polyphonic | 16. The tempo (speed) of the music gradually slows down. | Rallentando | 17. An exact repeat of a musical idea. | Repetition | 18. Nonsense words, syllables and sounds are improvised (made up) by the singer. Sometimes the singer is imitating the sounds of instruments. | Scat Singing | 19. A melodic phrase that is immediately repeated at a higher or lower pitch. | Sequence | 20. The form of a song that has music repeated for verses/choruses, therefore the same music will be heard repeating throughout the song. | Strophic | 21. A three-part form of music in which section A is followed by section B, which is a different melody, and then section A returns. | Ternary | 22. A bass line (low notes) often featured in a variety of jazz styles. The bass line constantly moves up and down a pattern of notes, and is often played on a double bass. | Walking Bass |
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