QR Challenge: Idioms

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. All ears	1
2. All thumbs	2
3. Ants in your pants	3
4. Apple of your eye	4
5. Baker's dozen	5
6. Bed of roses	6
7. Bite the bullet	7
8. Bite your tongue	8
9. Break a leg	9
10. Button your lip	10
11. Cat got your tongue	11
12. Chip on your shoulder	12
13. Cold feet	13
14. Cost an arm and a leg	14
15. Dead duck	15
16. Drop you like a hot potato	16
17. Easy as pie	17
18. Fifth Wheel	18
19. Follow your nose	19
20. Five me five	20
21. Go fly a kite	21
22. Hard nut to crack	22
23. Head in the clouds	23
24. Hit the books	24
25. Hit the hay	25
26. Hold your horses	26
27. In the doghouse	27
28. Like a bump on a log	28
29. Monkey business	29
30. On cloud nine	30
31. On the fence	31
32. Once in a blue moon	32
33. Open a can of worms	33
34. Out on a limb	34
35. Quiet as a mouse	35
36. Saw logs	36
37. Sick as a dog	37
38. Through the grapevine	38
39. Throw in the towel	39
40. Walk on eggshells	40
41. Watched pot never boils	41

 

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