QR Challenge: Jack and the Beanstalk

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. What is the name of the boy in the story?	His name is Jack.
2. How many magic beans does he get given?	He gets given 3 magic beans.
3. What happens to the magic beans when they get thrown outside?	The beans grow into a huge beanstalk.
4. Who lives at the top of the beanstalk?	The giant and his wife.
5. What does Jack steal from the giant?	He steals the Golden Harp.
6. What does the giant say when he smells something?	Fee-fi-fo fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman.
7. How does Jack stop the giant from getting him?	Jack chops down the beanstalk using his axe.

 

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