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.
Question | Answer |
| 1. What is an ostinato? | A repeated rhythm. | 2. Where have steel pans originated from? | Trinidad and Tobago | 3. What is polyrhytm? | Different rhythms layered on top of eachother, played at the same time. | 4. What is call and response? | Where a leader plays a musical phrase the ensemble then plays back. | 5. Where is Samba drumming from? | Brazil. | 6. Which two styles of music infleunced the reggae style of music? | Mento and Ska. | 7. What is the national instrument of Peru called? | Charango. | 8. What are steel pans sourced from? | 55 Gallon oil drums. | 9. Which cultures mixed together to influence Latin American Music? | Spanish and Portuguese culture with African music culture. | 10. Where is the gaita from? | Spain. | 11. State one musical feature of the flamenco. | Musical Feature. | 12. What is a falsetta? | Small musical interlude played on Spanish Guitar. | 13. Describe the strings on a charango. | 10 strings in sets of twos. Either duplicates or an octave apart. | 14. What is a staccato back beat rhythmic accompaniment? | Short accented chords played on the off beat. | 15. Name 3 Latin American Dances. | Salsa,Sambe,Cha Cha, Tango | 16. Describe the panpipes instrument and how its played. | Small bamboo tubes of different lengths sounding the different pitches when the player blows across the hole. | 17. Most common African drum? | Djemebe. | 18. Describe the most common stringed instrument from India | Sitar. | 19. What is pitchbending? | A smooth transition from one note to another. | 20. What is a Rhumba Box? | A percussion instrument from Jamaica that you sit on to play similar to a cajon. this instrument also has metal keys to play melodic notes. | 21. State one artist famous for playiong reggae music. | Reggae Artist | 22. What is a walking bass? | Repeated pattern of notes moving with little or no leaps played in the bass. | 23. Where does the accents lie in Ska music? | Offbeat or on beats 2 and 4. |
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