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. 1. Why do you think mother hid the children under the bed? | accept reasonable answers | 2. 2. How would you feel if you had to leave your home and leave everything? Explain why. | accept reasonable answers | 3. 3. Dad took mom's jewelry including her wedding ring. Why do you think he took the jewelry? Explain. | accept reasonable answers | 4. 4. Describe the characters, what does the text tell you about the characters? | accept reasonable answers | 5. 5. The boat was robbed, why do you think they were robbed even though they had nothing to steal? | accept reasonable answers | 6. 6. The boaters made it to land and were met by soliders that gave them food and water. Why do you think they could not stay? | accept reasonable answers | 7. 7.Did the family make it to America, how do you know? | accept reasonable answers | 8. 8. How does this Thanksgiving look similar or different to your Thanksgiving? | accept reasonable answers | 9. 9. Explain why Papa said that the family could stay in America. | accept reasonable answers |
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