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.
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| 1. What is the longest possible noun phrases in this sentence? Under the bush, the timid kitten hid from the rain. | Under the bush, the timid kitten | 2. Find the past progressive tense in this sentence. Damien was working hard on his homework that had been set the previous day. | was working | 3. What three pieces of punctuation can be used to mark parenthesis? | brackets, dashes or commas. | 4. What is the purpose of the comma in this sentence? Although it was raining outside, the children went out to play. | to mark a subordinated clause. | 5. What punctuation is missing from this sentence and why? Above the clouds there lived a giant who loved to collect golden objects. | comma after clouds to mark a fronted adverbial. | 6. Should this be one sentence or two? It was a beautifully sunny day in Weaverham the children were all playing outside on the yard having lots of fun. | Two. The full stop should be after Weaverham | 7. What is the word class (the name we give them) of these words? And, but, or, so. | coordinating conjunctions. | 8. What are the three articles? | a, an and the | 9. Which relative pronoun would be the best to use in this sentence? Jonathan, _____ was very small for his age, was often mistaken for someone much younger. | who | 10. What do we call ‘that was green and scaly’ in this sentence? The teacher had picked up the lizard that was green and scaly and put it somewhere safe. | relative clause |
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