QR Challenge: Celebrations Around the World

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. Esta celebracion es típica de España y se celebra el 6 de Enero	Los Tres Reyes Magos
2. Children hang handkerchiefs from their roofs in hopes that on New Year's Eve Gah-ghant Baba will fill them with fried wheat, raisin and coins.	New Year in Armenia
3. For eight days each November, we light up candles to remember the special miracle of how one day worth of oil burned for 8 days in the temple	Hanukkah
4. This is a spiritual holiday that we celebrate from Dec. 26th to Jan. 1st. We were special clothes, decorate our homes with fruits and vegetables, and we use a "kinara"	Kwanzaa
5. We carry tons of lanterns, set up firecrackers, and we join a parade led by an enormous silk dragon. We begin this celebration on the second new moon, after the winter solstice.	Chinese New Year Festival
6. We are joyful for the resurrection of Jesus Christ. We enjoy painting and eating hard-boiled eggs, and like to wear Spring-theme outfits that day. Germany and Hungary, among many other countries, celebrate this day too.	Easter.
7. During this celebration, only Pakistani boys participate in a kite-flying event. Boys put powdered glass in their strings to cut off each other's kites. Whoever keeps his kite the longest wins. They celebrate this event on the the first day of spring in the Muslim calendar.	Basanth
8. We remember those gone by honoring them with flower crowns, cooking skull-shaped bread and preparing our loved ones' favorite food. We parade to the cemetery and we have a picnic there while we think of our relatives who have left us. We celebrate for two days, November 1st and 2nd.	Dia de Los Muertos
9. This is a cultural festival celebrated in March to commemorate the death of the patron of Ireland. We like a certain color that symbolizes life and growth, and this festival specifically celebrates the arrival of Christianity to this country.	Saint Patrick's Day
10. This is one of the longest ongoing festivals in the world, with parties and celebrations lasting for up to 18 days! It takes place in Munich, Bavaria and it is often called "Wiesn" after the colloquial name of the fairgrounds that serve as the official grounds/location for the festival. Unfortunately, this event is also known worldwide as the biggest "beer" drinking festival.	Oktoberfest

 

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