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. List 3 ways gender is constructed by within a culture. | symbols, classifications, relative values associated to genders, behavioural patterns | 2. What was the traditional expected body type for women over most of human history? | plump or fat | 3. Describe how women in Niger try to meet the feminine body \'ideal?\' | get stretch marks, eat porridge, couscous and millet, carry heavy things when they are weighed at the doctor | 4. Why is \'fat\' seen as a sexual topic in Niger? | fat - sexy, therefore desire for weight gain is seeking sex | 5. What shifts in current Canadian society challenge traditional roles for men? | industrialization, changes in labour expectations result in a loss of power and authority for men | 6. What percentage of stay-at-home dads were there in 1976? | 1% -- how can we continue to increase this number? | 7. Where is poetry writing considered sexy? | Iran | 8. Where can you find men wearing skirts? | Scotland, Polynesia, Morocco, Greeve, Japan, Bhutan etc | 9. Why are some forms of dancing seen as more masculine than others? | hiphop – physical stamina, dance competitions, ballet – too feminine etc | 10. What is Third Gender? | social constructed concept of a non-masculine or non-feminine gendered person or homosexual, transgendered or intersexed | 11. Why would some cultures be more accepting of blurred gender roles? | culture is not focused on population growth or maintainence | 12. Identify one culture where heterosexual relations are very strict but homosexual relations are more permissive. | Siwan of North Africa, Etoro of New Guinea p 151 |
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