QR Challenge: PowerPoint/Access

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. Animation - text, objects, graphics, or pictures that have motion
2. Blank presentation - When you start PowerPoint, a new blank presentation appears on the screen
3. Design template - If your computer is connected to the Internet, you can select from professional design templates that are posted on Microsoft Office Online Web site
4. Effects Options – Allows you to make adjustments to the animation effects
5. Handout master - Lets you add items that you want to appear on all your handouts, such as a logo or a date
6. Hyperlink - Allows you to jump to another slide, file, or to a Web site if you are connected to the Internet
7. Layout - The default layout includes placeholders for different objects on a slide
8. Motion Paths - Allows you to use predefined paths for the movement of an object
9. Normal View – Where you do most work creating slides. This view can have up to four panes - the Slides tab and Outline tab, the Slide pane, the Notes pane, and the Task pane
10. Notes master - This is where you include any text or formatting that you want to appear on all your speaker notes
11. Notes Page View - Displays your slides on the top portion of the page, with speaker notes appearing in the Notes pane on the bottom of the page
12. Outline tab - Shows the text or words on the slides
13. Placeholder - Reserves a space in the presentation for the type of information you want to insert
14. Slide layout - How objects are placed on a slide
15. Slide master - Controls the formatting for all the slides in the presentation
16. Slide pane - The workbench for PowerPoint presentations. It displays one slide at a time and is useful for adding and editing text, inserting and formatting illustrations or objects, or modifying a slide’s appearance
17. Slide Show view – Allows you to run your presentation on the computer as if it were a slide projector to preview how it will look to your audience
18. Slide Sorter view - Displays thumbnails of the slides on the screen so that you can move and arrange slides easily by clicking and dragging
19. Slide Transitions - Determines how one slide is removed from the screen and how the next one appears
20. Slides tab - The Slides tab shows the graphics on the slides; the Outline tab shows the text or words on the slides
21. Status bar - Appears at the bottom of your screen and allows you to see which slide is displayed in the Slide pane and tells you the total number of slides in the presentation
22. Tab - The PowerPoint work area is divided into three panes - the Slides tab, the Outline tab, and the Slide pane. The tabs are at the top of the screen and look like the tabs on file folders
23. Task pane - For some tasks, such as inserting clip art and animations, a task pane opens on the right side of the Slide pane
24. Thumbnails - The Slides tab and the Outline tab contain thumbnails or small images of the selected slide that you are working on
25. Transition - The way each new slide appears on the screen
26. Database - an organized way to store information so that it is easy for the computer to search for information
27. Design View - the view that allows you to change the structure of a database object
28. Field - the title (headings) of the columns in a database
29. Query - an instruction that tells a database to show only certain information
30. Record - the set of data that describes one item in a database

 

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