QR Challenge: Grandma's Garden

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. Stooping to the ground, Sarah smelled the sweet, scarlet flower	Alliteration when two or more words begin with the same initial sound
2. Towering above the other plants, the sunflowers were a fence protecting the petunias2	Metaphor a comparison of unlike things that says something is another thing2
3. It was only once in a blue moon that the flowers did not bloom3	Idiom a phrase that means something other than what is actually being said3
4. The roses wept for their smashed friends4	Personification giving human characteristics to inanimate things4
5. The bess's buzzing would break the silence5	Onomatopoeia words that make sounds5
6. The townspeople say that Grandma's flowers were the most exquisite flowers in the entire world6	Hyperbole an exaggeration used to make or prove a point6
7. Grandma would stand as proud as a peacock7	Simile a comparison of unlike things using "like" or "as"7

 

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