QR Challenge: Snowflake Spin - QR Code Game

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. What colour are the berries of the mistletoe plant?	White
2. What are the names of the three wise men said to have brought gifts to the baby Jesus?	Balthasar, Melchior, Caspar
3. Name the original eight reindeer from the 'Twas the night Before Christmas' poem?	Comet, Cupid, Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Donner, Blitzen
4. What date is St Stephen's Day?	26th December
5. In what country, the world's seventh largest by geographical area, is Christmas known as Bada Din (the big day)?	India
6. Who composed the music known as The Nutcracker Suite, for the Christmas themed ballet The Nutcracker, premiered in St Petersburg, 1892?	Tchaikovsky
7. Driving Home For Christmas was a 1988 hit single for which singer?	Chris Rea
8. The Latin word meaning 'coming' gave us what term which still refers to the coming Christmas period, and also to a particular tradition popular with children?	Advent
9. In 2004, the post office of which country (international dialling code 49) gave away twenty million free scented stickers, to make Christmas cards smell like fir trees, cinnamon, gingerbread or honey wax?	Germany
10. Name a German word used in a country other than Germany.	Kindergarten.
11. Where is largest Christmas market in Germany?	Nuernberg
12. Which is oldest Christmas market in Germany?	Dresden
13. When is Saint Nicholas Day?	6 December

 

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