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. William Shakespeare was baptized on April 26, 1564 and it is believed that he was born 3 days prior, though no official record exists | Question 1 | 2. Shakespeare was born in Stratford-Upon-Avon, a market town in England | Question 2 | 3. His mother was an heiress and his father a leather merchant. He had 5 siblings and was the 3rd born child | Question 3 | 4. William Shakespeare is also known as the "Bard of Avon" or simply, "the Bard" | Question 4 | 5. Shakespeare is largely a mystery; what we know comes from his plays and various official documents (church and court records) | Question 5 | 6. While it’s difficult to determine the exact chronology of William Shakespeare’s plays, over the course of two decades, from about 1590 to 1613, he wrote a total of 37 plays | Question 6 | 7. His work revolves around several main themes: histories, tragedies, comedies and tragicomedies. | Question 7 | 8. There are no records of William's schooling. Scholars have surmised that he most likely attended the King's New School, in Stratford, which taught reading, writing and the classics. Being a public official's child, William would have undoubtedly qualified for free tuition. Though the lack of records has lead many to question the existence of Shakespeare. | Question 8 | 9. Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway on November 28, 1582. William was 18 and Anne was 26, and, as it turns out, pregnant. | Question 9 | 10. He had a daughter named Susanna, born on May 26, 1583. Two years later, on February 2, 1585, twins Hamnet and Judith were born. Hamnet later died of unknown causes at age 11. | Question 10 | 11. After the birth of his twins, there are no records of Shakespeare for 7 years. This period is known as the "lost years," as we have no clue what he might have been up to. | Question 11 | 12. The Lord Chamberlain's Men (later the King's Men) was an acting company in London. Shakespeare joined its management around 1590. | Question 12 | 13. By 1592, there is evidence William Shakespeare earned a living as an actor and a playwright in London and possibly had several plays produced. | Question 13 | 14. By 1599, William Shakespeare and his business partners built their own theater on the south bank of the Thames River, which they called the Globe. | Question 14 | 15. Shakespeare was very innovative, adapting traditional style to his own purposes and creating a freer flow of words. With only small degrees of variation, Shakespeare primarily used a metrical pattern consisting of lines of unrhymed iambic pentameter, or blank verse, to compose his plays. | Question 15 |
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