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. Ingredients for a mystery are | characters,setting,plot,clues,red herring | 2. When bad is punished and good is rewarded is called | poetic justice | 3. A story is called from different.... | points of view | 4. When an author takes you back in time is an example of a.... | flashback | 5. When an author uses clues to tell the reader what might happen next is... | foreshadowing | 6. Fictional Folktale sometimes based on a real person is.... | tall tale | 7. Readers think______when they take their time | deeply | 8. Nonfiction is about real things, animals, people, or events. True of False? | True | 9. The best part of a story where you don't want to put the book down is | climax | 10. When you create mental images in your mind while you read is an example of.... | visualizing | 11. Writers write for three reasons.... | persuade,inform,entertain |
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Nonfiction is about real things, animals, people, or events. True of False?&choe=UTF-8
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