QR Challenge: Bell Beaker People

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. The beaker folk were people who came to Britain and changed the culture	Who were the beaker folk?
2. They had this name because of the shape of the pottery they made	Why did they have this name?
3. The beakers were mainly used as cups to drink from	What were the beakers used for?
4. They were intricately designed with imprints into the clay	Were the beakers just plain and boring?
5. Owning one of these pots show that someone was extremely wealthy	What did owning one of these pots show?
6. Historians think the beaker folk came from Spain/Portugal	Where did the beaker people come from?
7. When owners died, they were buried with the pots showing that they must have been very well off people and that the pots were precious	What happened to the beaker when the owner died?

 

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