QR Challenge: Tom Sawyer

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 is Mark Twains real name?	Samuel Clemens
2. Who is Tom Sawyer's Aunt with whom he lives?	Aunt Polly
3. Is The Adventures of Tom Sawyer fiction or nonfiction?	fiction
4. Mark Twain based his book on his childhood adventures and his own hometown of Hannibal, MO. What did Twain name his town in the book?	St. Petersburg
5. How far is Hanibal from Arlington Heights?	about 310 miles
6. What phenomenon marked the birth and death of Mark Twain?	Halley's Comet
7. Mark Twain was the first American author to do what to a manuscript?	type
8. What great River does the setting take place?	Mississippi
9. Is Arlington Heights east or west of the Mississippi?	east
10. One of Twain's noted writing is to include satire. What is satire?	use of sarcasm
11. Back in Twain's time. what type of boat would one travel?	steamboat
12. What is a superstition?	a belief that certain things can cause good or bad luck.

 

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