QR Challenge: Plagiarism Dos and Don\'ts

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. Make a bibliography at the end of your report that says where you found all your information.	Do
2. 2. Copy a poem or other text that is not your own work and pretend that it is yours.	Don\'t
3. 3. Put someone else\'s ideas in your story and say you made them up.	Don\'t
4. 4. Create artwork that is truly yours and not copied.	Do
5. 5. Use quotation marks to mark quotes.	Do
6. 6. Use people\'s words and speeches without quoting them.	Don\'t
7. 7. Document website where you found ideas.	Do
8. 8. Include a printed picture from the Internet in a report, but do not cite where you found it.	Don\'t
9. 9. Write down where a picture, illustration, or graph in your report came from.	Do
10. 10. Take information from the Internet and summarize it in your own words.	Do
11. 11. Copy word-for-word from an encyclopedia and pretend the words are yours.	Don\'t
12. 12. Cut and past ideas from a website into your report without saying you found them online.	Don\'t
13. 13. Use ideas from your own brain.	Do
14. 14. Give credit to authors and artists whose work you used.	Do
15. 15. Retype a friend\'s report and hand it in as your own.	Don\'t

 

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