QR Challenge: Maniac Magee Scavenger Hunt

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. 1) What is one theme of the novel? (Hint for next location: Where Piper and Russell spent most of their time in a school day.)
2. 2) What is the climax of the novel? (005 Degrees North)
3. 3) What is the significance of an address to Maniac?(Hint for next location: Hester and Lester's favorite class)
4. 4) Who are the antagonists in the novel? (Hint for next location: 177 Degrees South)
5. 5) What do John McNab and Mars Bars Thompson have in common? (Hint for next location: John McNabb's Favorite Class)
6. 6) What figurative language is “Arnold Jones, held up by all these hands flopping, kicking and shrieking like some poor Aztec sacrifice about to be tossed off a pyramid? (Hint for next location: Amanda Beale's Favorite Class)
7. 7) How is Grayson like the character in the book that he was reading? (Hint for next location: 020 Degrees North)
8. 8)The phrase: "Finsterwald's backyard is a graveyard" is what types of figurative language? (Hint for next location: Where Maniac would be if he accidently ate pizza)
9. 9)The phrase: "first frogball for a four-bagger" is what type of figurative language?(Hint for next location: Where the "Birth Scream" of a legend started)
10. 10) The phrase: "Maniac was finally facing a knot that would stand up and fight; it was a worthy opponent." is what type of figurative language?(Hint for next location: Mrs. Vassallo’s classroom if you are finished. However, if you are not, then 197 degrees South)

 

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