QR Challenge: Jazz - what have we learnt?

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. What is an example of improvisation?	an actor who makes up his lines as he thinks of them
2. Give a factual statement about jazz.	Jazz originated in the American South
3. Why has jazz changed so much over the years?	because creativity and exploring new ideas are essential parts of jazz music
4. Syncopation involves altering the natural ______ of a piece of music	Rhythm
5. What instrument beginning with "S" would you normally find in a jazz band	saxophone
6. what do jazz and traditional European music have in common?	same instruments
7. Give a word to describe Bebop.	Complicated
8. what is the most common way that musicians and composers develop new styles of jazz?	by blending jazz together with other musical forms

 

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