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. How many siblings did Shakespeare have? | 7 total: 3 sisters and 4 brothers. | 2. The genre of "Romeo & Juliet" is defined as? | Tragedy | 3. At age 18, William Shakespeare marries __ who is 18 years older than him | Anne Hathaway. | 4. True or False? The audience would talk back to the actors on stage. | True | 5. The following quotes are all from which famous R & J scene? Hint: Think SETTING: "But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.""What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet." | Answer: Balcony Scene | 6. Bonus: What is the name of the famous theatre built in 1599? | The Globe Theatre |
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