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. Help you better understand a picture or photograph | Caption | 2. These sentences help you to picture something | Comparisons | 3. Helps you define words that are in the book | Glossary | 4. Charts, graphs, or cutaways are used to help you understand what the author is trying to tell you | Graphics | 5. Help you understand where places are in the world | Maps | 6. Help you to know exactly what something looks like | Photographs/Illustrations | 7. This is an alphabetical list of ideas that are in the book. Tell you the page number | Index | 8. These help you identify a picture or a photograph and its parts | Labels | 9. When a word is bold, in italics, or underlined, it is an important word for you to know | special print | 10. These headings help you to know what the section will be about | subtitles | 11. Helps you identify key topics in the book in the order they are presented | Table of Contents |
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