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 the author feel | 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 represent support | 9. What do the roman numerals in an outline represent? | main points | 10. Define sparsely | present only in small amounts | 11. Define stout | somewhat fat or heavy built | 12. Define festered | an oozing sore | 13. Define muster | work hard to find or get | 14. Define commotion | noisy | 15. Define allotted | assign a share or portion | 16. Define dormant | not doing anything at a particular time | 17. My dog is as smelly as dirty socks | simile | 18. The doll had a face like an angel | simile | 19. His dog is a bully | metaphor | 20. Her hair was silk | metaphor | 21. The stuffed bear smiled as the boy tightly hugged him | personification | 22. The tree groaned when the wind came rushing through | personification | 23. The floors creaked | onomatopoeia | 24. The wild and wooly walrus wiggled through the water | alliteration | 25. The jelly jiggled in the jar | alliteration | 26. I heard my mom say stop a million times | hyperbole | 27. Stacey screamed louder than a train's horn | hyperbole |
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