QR Challenge: Prefixes/ Root Words/ Suffixes

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. -dict (Dictator)	to say
2. -ject (Eject)	to throw
3. -pend(Pendant)	to hang
4. -port (Transport)	to carry
5. -scrib-, -script (Scribble)	to write
6. -tract (Extract)	to pull, drag, draw
7. -vert (Invert)	to turn
8. -anthrop (Anthropology)	human
9. -chron (Chronological)	time
10. -dem (Democrats)	people
11. -phon (Headphones)	sound
12. -therm (Thermostat)	Heat
13. -photo (Photosynthesis)	Light
14. -scope (Telescope)	Used for looking
15. -graph-, -gram (Telegraph)	Written or drawn
16. -bio (Biography)	Life
17. -rupt (Interrupt)	To break
18. -mob (Automobile)	Move
19. -micro (Microscope)	Small
20. -aster-, -astr (Asteroid)	Star, outer space
21. -meter (Centimeter)	To measure
22. -hydr (Hydroelectricity)	Water
23. -mono (Monologue)	One
24. -auto (Autobiography)	Self
25. Loc/loco (Location)	Place
26. Crat/cracy (Democracy	Rule
27. Cycl/cyclo (Cycle)	Wheel/circular
28. Fac/fact/fic (Fiction)	Make, do
29. Mar/mari/mer (Mariner)	Sea
30. Sent/sens (Sensation)	Feel
31. Vid/vis (Visual)	See
32. Mono/uni (Unicycle)	One
33. Tri (Tricycle)	Three
34. pre (Pregame)	before
35. un (Untied)	not
36. dis (Dislike	not
37. re (Remake)	again
38. mis (Mistake)	Not correct
39. im (Impossible)	not
40. bi (Bicycle)	two
41. de (Denominate)	not
42. post (Post-Test)	after
43. in (Inedible)	not
44. Trans (Transport)	Across
45. Inter (Interview)	Between
46. Intra (Intramurals)	Within
47. Inner (Innertube)	Inside
48. Super (Superman)	Above
49. Sub (Submarine)	Below
50. Anti (Anti-war)	Against
51. -er, or, ant, ent (Teacher)	doer (one who)
52. -able (Capable)	able to
53. -ous (Generous)	full of
54. -ness (Wellness)	state of being
55. -ful (Careful)	full of
56. -ly or -y (Softly)	like, in a manner
57. -ment (Government)	state of
58. -ion (Collection)	action, condition, process
59. -less (Helpless)	without
60. -let (Playlet)	Short or small

 

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