QR Challenge: The Mice Who Lived in a Shoe

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. 1. What were the types of weather that the shoe did not keep out?	.
2. 2. What did the mice decide to do?	.
3. 3. Make a list of adjectives in the story which describe the different houses the mice drew	.
4. 4. How many houses did the mice draw?	.
5. 5. What do you think Pa meant when he asked the mice to draw their "dream house"?	.
6. 6. Write down the things you think the mice had to do to build their dream house.	.
7. 7. If you could build a house anywhere in the world, where would it be and why?	.
8. 8. Add a connective and a wow word to this sentence to make it more interesting - When it rained they got wet	.
9. 9. What did the cat do to the mice and how did they react?	.
10. 10. Describe your home using 5 wow words	.
11. 11. Draw a picture of your dream house	.
12. 12. When you are finished all of the questions try to come up with 5 of your own that people could answer from the passage	.

 

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