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.
Question | Answer |
| 1. What is sibilance? | the repetition of the SSS sound | 2. What does a traditional Petrachan sonnet contain? | 14 lines, octset. sestet, volta, rhyming couplet. | 3. What is the epistolary form? | A series of documents, usually letters | 4. What is an epic poem usually about? | Heroic deeds | 5. What is a volta? | A shift in mood or tone. | 6. Explain the term \'figurative language\'. | Language that describes something as something else. | 7. What is anaphora? | Lots of repetition. | 8. What is a caesura? | A deliberate pause or break in a line of poetry, sometimes accentuated by punctuation. | 9. What is antithesis? | Opposing ideas in a text. | 10. Explain what enjambment is? | The running of the sense of one line into the next. |
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