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. What are the three parts of an introduction? | hook, build, thesis | 2. What are three types of hooks? | quote, onomatopoeia, question | 3. When using a quote, what two things must be with it? | quotation marks and author | 4. Draw and list out the 5 steps of a plot diagram | exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution | 5. Define theme | message, lesson, or moral of a story | 6. Define tone and mood | tone-the words the author uses to express emotion and mood is how it makes | 7. List 5 ways to plagiarize | buy a paper, use a paper twice, not citing source, giving incorrect information, | 8. Explain how to create a bubble map | pick a main topic and then draw out arms with bubbles to | 9. What do the roman numerals in an outline represent? | main points | 10. Define shirk | to avoid doing something you were supposed to do | 11. Define maxim | a phrase about a truth or role or behavior | 12. Define whelped | to birth an animal | 13. Define parasitical | a person that takes something away from someone else | 14. Define cryptic | having a hidden meaning | 15. Define indefatigable | able to work or continue without getting tired | 16. Define capitulate | to stop fighting an enemy | 17. Define procure | to get by some act or effort | 18. Define literate | able to read and write | 19. My dog is as smelly as dirty socks | simile | 20. The doll had a face like an angel | simile | 21. His dog is a bully | metaphor | 22. Her hair was silk | metaphor | 23. She sings at the top of her lungs | idiom | 24. Hold your horses, I’m coming! | idiom | 25. The stuffed bear smiled as the boy tightly hugged him | personification | 26. The tree groaned when the wind came rushing through | personification | 27. The floors creaked | onomatopoeia | 28. The wild and wooly walrus wiggled through the water | alliteration | 29. The jelly jiggled in the jar | alliteration | 30. I heard my mom say stop a million times | hyperbole | 31. Stacey screamed louder than a train's horn | hyperbole | 32. What is the acronym for conjunctions | FANBOYS | 33. What are the seven conjunctions | for and nor but or yet so | 34. What is a compound sentence | two complete sentences connected by a conjunction | 35. What is a complex sentence | one independent and one dependent sentence connected | 36. Create one complex sentence | answers will differ | 37. Create one compound sentence | answers will differ |
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