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. You are as sweet as chocolate. | simile | 2. The streets were a furnace, the sun an executioner.2 | metaphor2 | 3. Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.3 | paradox3 | 4. The stars danced playfully in the moonlit sky.4 | personification4 | 5. I catch the sound and it takes me into the cold.5 | synesthesia5 | 6. The killer wore a mark of Cain as he stalked his brother.6 | allusion6 | 7. An ambulance driver rushes to the scene of an accident, only to run the victim over, because the victim crawled into the middle of the street in the darkness of night.7 | irony7 | 8. She was recently dumped by her fiance.8 | colloquialism8 | 9. He is a little on the old side.9 | understatement9 | 10. Who loves ya, baby?10 | slang10 | 11. LOL11 | jargon11 |
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