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. Tim remembers these words his father often said: “In war the dead pay the debts of the living.” How do you think these words apply to Tim? | 2. What's ironic about Mr. Meeker dying on a British prison ship? | 3. Tim says that he “grows up” after his father's disappearance. In what ways does Tim show that he's grown up? | 4. What is Tim's attitude toward lying? | 5. Chapter 1 opens with a pounding rain that sounds like drums foreshadowing the coming of war. Explain foreshadowing. Why is this example considered to be foreshadowing? Identify two other examples of foreshadowing in the book and why they are considered such? | 6. You will read this excerpt from the Affidavit of Sylvanus Wood, who was 23 years old and was with the militia that fought the British at Lexington. He signed this affidavit in 1826. After reading you will use the SUMMARIZE FOR COMPREHENSION GRAPHIC ORGANIZER to gather evidence to write an essay in which you will argue whether the Patriots or British fired the first shot at Lexington. I immediately arose, took my gun and, with Robert Douglass, went in haste to Lexington, which was about three miles distant. When I arrived there, I inquired of Captain Parker, the commander of the Lexington company, what was the news. Parker told me he did not know what to believe, for a man had come up about half an hour before and informed him that the British troops were not on the road. But while we were talking, a messenger came up and told the captain that the British troops were within half a mile. Parker immediately turned to his drummer, William Diman, and ordered him to beat to arms, which was done. Captain Parker then asked me if I would parade with his company. I told him I would. Parker then asked me if the young man with me would parade. I spoke to Douglass, and he said he would follow the captain and me. | 7. You will read this excerpt from the Affidavit of Sylvanus Wood, who was 23 years old and was with the militia that fought the British at Lexington. He signed this affidavit in 1826. After reading you will use the SUMMARIZE FOR COMPREHENSION GRAPHIC ORGANIZER to gather evidence to write an essay in which you will argue whether the Patriots or British fired the first shot at Lexington. By this time many of the company had gathered around the captain at the hearing of the drum, where we stood, which was about half way between the meeting-house and Buckman’s tavern. Parker says to his men, “Every man of you, who is equipped, follow me; and those of you who are not equipped, go into the meeting-house and furnish yourselves from the magazine, and immediately join the company.” Parker led those of us who were equipped to the north end of Lexington Common, near the Bedford Road, and formed us in single file. I was stationed about in the centre of the company. While we were standing, I left my place and went from one end of the company to the other and counted every man who was paraded, and the whole number was thirty-eight, and no more. | 8. You will read this excerpt from the Affidavit of Sylvanus Wood, who was 23 years old and was with the militia that fought the British at Lexington. He signed this affidavit in 1826. After reading you will use the SUMMARIZE FOR COMPREHENSION GRAPHIC ORGANIZER to gather evidence to write an essay in which you will argue whether the Patriots or British fired the first shot at Lexington. Just as I had finished and got back to my place, I perceived the British troops had arrived on the spot between the meeting- house and Buckman’s, near where Captain Parker stood when he first led off his men. The British troops immediately wheeled so as to cut off those who had gone into the meeting-house. The British troops approached us rapidly in platoons, with a general officer on horseback at their head. The officer came up to within about two rods of the centre of the company, where I stood, the first platoon being about three rods distant. They there halted. The officer then swung his sword, and said, “Lay down your arms, you damned rebels, or you are all dead men. Fire!” Some guns were fired by the British at us from the first platoon, but no person was killed or hurt, being probably charged only with powder. | 9. You will read this excerpt from the Affidavit of Sylvanus Wood, who was 23 years old and was with the militia that fought the British at Lexington. He signed this affidavit in 1826. After reading you will use the SUMMARIZE FOR COMPREHENSION GRAPHIC ORGANIZER to gather evidence to write an essay in which you will argue whether the Patriots or British fired the first shot at Lexington. Just at this time, Captain Parker ordered every man to take care of himself. The company immediately dispersed; and while the company was dispersing and leaping over the wall, the second platoon of the British fired and killed some of our men. There was not a gun fired by any of Captain Parker’s company, within my knowledge. I was so situated that I must have known it, had any thing of the kind taken place before a total dispersion of our company. I have been intimately acquainted with the inhabitants of Lexington, and particularly with those of Captain Parker’s company, and, with one exception, I have never heard any of them say or pretend that there was any firing at the British from Parker’s company, or any individual in it until within a year or two. One member of the company told me, many years since, that, after Parker’s company had dispersed, and he was at some distance, he gave them “the guts of his gun” . . . |
Tim remembers these words his father often said: “In war the dead pay the debts of the living.” How do you think these words apply to Tim?&choe=UTF-8
Question 1 (of 9)
What's ironic about Mr. Meeker dying on a British prison ship?&choe=UTF-8
Question 2 (of 9)
Tim says that he “grows up” after his father's disappearance. In what ways does Tim show that he's grown up?&choe=UTF-8
Question 3 (of 9)
What is Tim's attitude toward lying?&choe=UTF-8
Question 4 (of 9)
Chapter 1 opens with a pounding rain that sounds like drums foreshadowing the coming of war. Explain foreshadowing. Why is this example considered to be foreshadowing? Identify two other examples of foreshadowing in the book and why they are considered such?&choe=UTF-8
Question 5 (of 9)
You will read this excerpt from the Affidavit of Sylvanus Wood, who was 23 years old and was with the militia that fought the British at Lexington. He signed this affidavit in 1826. After reading you will use the SUMMARIZE FOR COMPREHENSION GRAPHIC ORGANIZER to gather evidence to write an essay in which you will argue whether the Patriots or British fired the first shot at Lexington. I immediately arose, took my gun and, with Robert Douglass, went in haste to Lexington, which was about three miles distant. When I arrived there, I inquired of Captain Parker, the commander of the Lexington company, what was the news. Parker told me he did not know what to believe, for a man had come up about half an hour before and informed him that the British troops were not on the road. But while we were talking, a messenger came up and told the captain that the British troops were within half a mile. Parker immediately turned to his drummer, William Diman, and ordered him to beat to arms, which was done. Captain Parker then asked me if I would parade with his company. I told him I would. Parker then asked me if the young man with me would parade. I spoke to Douglass, and he said he would follow the captain and me.&choe=UTF-8
Question 6 (of 9)
You will read this excerpt from the Affidavit of Sylvanus Wood, who was 23 years old and was with the militia that fought the British at Lexington. He signed this affidavit in 1826. After reading you will use the SUMMARIZE FOR COMPREHENSION GRAPHIC ORGANIZER to gather evidence to write an essay in which you will argue whether the Patriots or British fired the first shot at Lexington. By this time many of the company had gathered around the captain at the hearing of the drum, where we stood, which was about half way between the meeting-house and Buckman’s tavern. Parker says to his men, “Every man of you, who is equipped, follow me; and those of you who are not equipped, go into the meeting-house and furnish yourselves from the magazine, and immediately join the company.” Parker led those of us who were equipped to the north end of Lexington Common, near the Bedford Road, and formed us in single file. I was stationed about in the centre of the company. While we were standing, I left my place and went from one end of the company to the other and counted every man who was paraded, and the whole number was thirty-eight, and no more.&choe=UTF-8
Question 7 (of 9)
You will read this excerpt from the Affidavit of Sylvanus Wood, who was 23 years old and was with the militia that fought the British at Lexington. He signed this affidavit in 1826. After reading you will use the SUMMARIZE FOR COMPREHENSION GRAPHIC ORGANIZER to gather evidence to write an essay in which you will argue whether the Patriots or British fired the first shot at Lexington. Just as I had finished and got back to my place, I perceived the British troops had arrived on the spot between the meeting- house and Buckman’s, near where Captain Parker stood when he first led off his men. The British troops immediately wheeled so as to cut off those who had gone into the meeting-house. The British troops approached us rapidly in platoons, with a general officer on horseback at their head. The officer came up to within about two rods of the centre of the company, where I stood, the first platoon being about three rods distant. They there halted. The officer then swung his sword, and said, “Lay down your arms, you damned rebels, or you are all dead men. Fire!” Some guns were fired by the British at us from the first platoon, but no person was killed or hurt, being probably charged only with powder.&choe=UTF-8
Question 8 (of 9)
You will read this excerpt from the Affidavit of Sylvanus Wood, who was 23 years old and was with the militia that fought the British at Lexington. He signed this affidavit in 1826. After reading you will use the SUMMARIZE FOR COMPREHENSION GRAPHIC ORGANIZER to gather evidence to write an essay in which you will argue whether the Patriots or British fired the first shot at Lexington. Just at this time, Captain Parker ordered every man to take care of himself. The company immediately dispersed; and while the company was dispersing and leaping over the wall, the second platoon of the British fired and killed some of our men. There was not a gun fired by any of Captain Parker’s company, within my knowledge. I was so situated that I must have known it, had any thing of the kind taken place before a total dispersion of our company. I have been intimately acquainted with the inhabitants of Lexington, and particularly with those of Captain Parker’s company, and, with one exception, I have never heard any of them say or pretend that there was any firing at the British from Parker’s company, or any individual in it until within a year or two. One member of the company told me, many years since, that, after Parker’s company had dispersed, and he was at some distance, he gave them “the guts of his gun” . . .&choe=UTF-8
Question 9 (of 9)
