QR Challenge: Olympic Torch

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. question1 When is the Olympic Torch lit?	answer1 several months before the Olympics-Sept.29 2013
2. question2 Where does the torch go once it has been lit?	answer2 The torch briefly travels around Greece.
3. question3 Where does it go after it leaves Greece?	answer3 It goes to the host country which is Russia and travel through Russia until it finally goes to Sochi to be lit at the opening ceremonies.
4. question4 How do you get to be a torchbearer?	answer4 see the link to the criteria.
5. question5 How did the flame arrive in Russia?	answer5 in a contained lantern

 

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