QR Challenge: How much do you know about the Higgins Middle School?

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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.

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!

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.

Questions / Answers (teacher reference)

Question	Answer
1. 1. Who is the school named for and what was his position?	Principal J. Henry Higgins
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3. 2. Who is the school library named for?	Former teacher T. Mary Cullen
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5. 3. What is the story behind this flag?	This flag was donated by a group of Japanese educators who visited the Higgins in 2006. It comes from a fishing village in Japan. The flag is flown when local fisherman have a good catch.
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7. 4. What is the location of this mural?	the Pegasus cluster
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9. 5. Who is the Auditorium named for and who was he?	Walter R. Roche was a long-time member of the Peabody School Committee.
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11. 6. When was this school built?	1965
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13. 7. What company donated the land for our school?	Eastman Gelatine Corporation
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15. 8. Who was the artist who created this work of stain glass?	Former grade 6 Science teacher Rosemary Roseanne Cody.