QR Challenge: Bell Ringer for Hatchet Chapters 5-9

Created using the ClassTools QR Treasure Hunt Generator

Teacher Notes

A. Prior to the lesson:

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

• Download a QR reader (e.g. I-Nigma | NeoReader | Kaywa) onto their mobile devices
• Bring these devices into the lesson.

3. Print out the QR codes.

4. Cut them out and place them around your class / school.

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B. The lesson:

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!

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C. TIPS / OTHER IDEAS

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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Questions / Answers (teacher reference)

Question	Answer
1. Identify the figurative language term from Hatchet chapter 5 pages 52-53: "Ahh, there it was - the moment when the pilot had his heart attack his right foot had jerked down on the rudder pedal and the plane had slewed side-ways/. What did that mean? Why did that keep coming into his thinking that way, nudging and pushing?"	Personification
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3. from Hatchet chapter 5, page 54: "Gradually, like sloshing oil his thoughts settled back and the panic was gone."	Simile
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5. What did Brian's teacher,Perpich, always tell his students?	Stay positive and motivated.
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7. What did Brian eat that caused him to get very sick?	Gut cherries
8. What animal did Brian first encounter while picking raspberries?	a bear

 

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