QR Challenge: NIght Vocab

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. Compatriots	a person of one’s own country
2. Edict	A public order, decree
3. Expound	to set forth; state in detail
4. Firmament	the sky, viewed poetically as a solid arch or vault
5. Hermetically	air tight
6. Pestilential	a deadly epidemic disease; plague
7. Phylacteries	either of two small, leather cases holding scripture texts, worn in prayer on the forehead and arm by Orthodox Jewish men
8. Pillage	a plundering; goods stolen or taken by force
9. Premonition	a forewarning or foreboding
10. Truncheon	a policeman’s stick or billy
11. Bestial	like a beast; savage, brutal
12. Blandishments	to flatter; coax
13. Crucible	a heat-resistant container for melting ores, metals, etc.
14. Emaciated	to cause to become abnormally lean
15. Leprous	an infectious disease of the skin, flesh, etc.
16. Manacle	to put handcuffs on; to restrain
17. Queue	a line, as of persons waiting to be served
18. Wizened	dried up; withered
19. Contagion	the spreading of a disease by contact
20. Embarkation	to begin; to start
21. Encumbrance	to burden, to hold back the motion or action of; hinder
22. Indeterminate	indefinite, vague: doubtful or inconclusive
23. Rivet	to fasten
24. Semblance	outward appearance
25. Vigilance	staying watchful and alert to danger or trouble

 

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