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. What piece of punctuation would you use to identify words copied from a text? | quotation marks | 2. What piece of punctuation shows where a letter/s are missing or shows possession? | apostrophe | 3. What piece of punctuation separates the clauses in a sentence? | comma | 4. What piece of punctuation would you use to show shock or surprise? | exclamation mark | 5. What punctuation marks would you use to enclose additional information in a sentence? | brackets | 6. What does an ellipsis look like? | 3 dots ... | 7. What piece of punctuation would you use to separate the items in a list? | comma | 8. Direct speech should always have what piece of punctuation enclosing it? | speech marks | 9. True or false, a colon can be used to create emphasis. | True | 10. True or false, semi-colons can be used to separate the items in a complicated list. | True |
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