QR Challenge: Cam Jansen and the Snowy Day Mystery Chapter 6

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. 1.What are the children doing out in the car parking lot?	They are looking for a car as the computers were too heavy to walk away with.
2. 2. Why must someone have seen the thieves go by?	They must have been in a car that had to drive past the front of the school building.
3. 3. Look at the word “thieves”. This words follow a certain spelling rule when it is made into a plural:thief – take off the ‘f’ and add ‘ves’. Change the ending of these words correctly (some don’t always follow that rule!)	1.thief - thieves. 2.loaf - loaves. 3.roof - roofs. 4.sniff - sniffs 5.leaf - leaves 6.chief - chiefs 7.cliff - cliffs 8.wife - wives
4. 4. What did Mrs. Adams give them to help them warm up?	A small electric heater
5. 5. Why does Cam think that the teachers didn’t steal the computers?	That teachers wouldn’t steal from a school and that there would be a need for two teachers to be involved.
6. 6. By reading what you have read so far, whom do you think you are most like.	I think that I am most like…..(Students’ own words)
7. 7. Go back to what you thought was happening in the two pictures. See if you were correct. What was different?	Students look at their previous predictions
8. 8. Who do you think stole the computers AND how do you think they did it?	Students’ ideas and opinions.

 

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