QR Challenge: Strange Situation

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. Who were the participants in the original study? 100 American middle-class children & their mothers	100 American middle-class children & their mothers
2. When does the study have to be done (ie how old are the children? Approx 18 months old	Approx 18 months old
3. Where is the setting? An unfamiliar room (so not in the child's normal environment) which is set up with toys and cameras to record the observation.	An unfamiliar room
4. How is the observation done? In summary the episodes are: 1 caregiver & child enter unfamiliar room, child can play and explore, 2 Stranger joins 3 Caregiver leaves 4 caregiver returns and stranger leaves 5 caregiver leaves child totally alone 6 stranger returns 7 caregiver returns and stranger leaves	the stages
5. Why is it called the Strange Situation?As the situation & environment that the child is placed into is unfamiliar. The level increases from a strange room, to a stranger to being left alone.	its strange
6. What is the type of observation?Structured, overt, non-participant	Structured, overt, non-participant
7. What behaviour is being observed in the Strange Situation?willingness to explore, stranger anxiety, separation protest, behaviour at reunion	4 behaviours
8. What is being measured in the Strange Situation? Attachment type, so children can be categorised as secure, insecure-resistant or insecure-avoidant	Attachment type

 

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