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 does the word digest mean? | To break down foods into substances that the body can use. | 2. Look at the attached paragraph. Based off of one sentence from the paragraph, how would you contrast Michael Jordan and Lebron James? | Michael Jordan won six championships. LeBron has won three. | 3. What does it mean to infer? | conclude (information) from evidence and reasoning rather than from explicit statements | 4. What can you call the following statement? You are the apple of my eye.(hint, simile or metaphor?) | Metaphor | 5. Define this metaphor: Love is a journey. | Love can be a long road you take with someone. | 6. Find the verb phrase(s) in the following sentence: Those girls are not trying. | are not trying | 7. Name the verb(s) in the following sentence: I will learn to play guitar this year. | learn and play | 8. Determine whether the following sentence is a metaphor or simile. He kissed her as though he were trying to win a sword fight. | Simile | 9. Combine the following two sentences with a conjunction: The class pushed. The class shoved. | The class pushed and shoved. | 10. Compare bedbugs and lice by naming something that they have in common. And no, you just can't say they are both insects! | Bedbugs and lice are both insects who feed on blood. | 11. Find the conjunction in the following sentence. I was tired, but I managed to finish the book. | but |
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