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.
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| 1. In a tutorial group after school, Martha joins one of the tables. The other students get quiet for a moment as she sits down, so she becomes very quiet, too. The others have their tests on the table and are talking about their mistakes, but she won’t take hers out. When she is asked questions by the tutor, she responds by saying, “I don’t know.” At the end of the tutoring session, when students can ask more questions, Martha tells the tutor that she doesn’t have any questions to ask. | F | 2. Joe’s soccer team just lost a big game that you expected to win. Some teammates didn’t attend the post-game team meeting at all; they said they played their best and the other team was way better. Others didn’t want to hear the coach’s notes on the plays and the errors. They blamed the loss on two “unfair” calls by the referee. Most of them left the meeting saying that it doesn’t really matter, the game is over now and there is nothing they can do about it. | F | 3. Jose wants to make the freshman high school basketball team. He has spent 15 hours each week this summer practicing his free throws and participating in pick-up basketball games at the local playground. When school starts, the varsity coach allows him to try out and then tells him that he didn’t make the team. Jose is very disappointed and tells his family, “I am no good. No matter how hard I work at basketball, I will never make the team.” Hi father responds, “I was never any good at it either. This lack of talent is genetic.” | F | 4. Denise interviews for a job, at the local mall, with a manager who makes her feel nervous. He asks her about her work experience; however, Denise does not yet have any. She gets defensive and tells the manager that she shouldn’t have such high expectations. Denise doesn’t get the job. Angrily, she decides that all managers are unfriendly and that she will never get a job so it’s not worth applying. | F | 5. Yasmin studied hard for an exam. The next week she is shocked to see her grade was much lower than expected. Her best friend didn’t study and got an A. Yasmin is angry at the teacher, starts disliking the class, and stops studying. | F |
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