QR Challenge: WHAT D'YA KNOW?

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 are the Vermont State Rubrics? Explain in detail how they are used and why. Have you researched them on the web? What seems challenging or hopeful about them?
2. Entry 3 concerns Colleagueship and Advocacy. These are two highly important aspects of teaching. Define each of these terms and tell a little about how you have been a good colleague in schools (or in class) this semester. Write a little about how you have been an advocate for kids as well.
3. How is what we're doing for Civic Engagement a literacy project? Tell different ways this work connects to schools, literacy, teaching and learning.
4. What do you think about this activity? Can you see yourself using technology like this in schools? Why or why not?
5. You will be drafting (or have already drafted) a letter to your mentor teacher telling him/her/them what you have appreciated about the semester. Write 3 meaningful words you have included or will include in your letter.
6. You have four things left to do for Literacy. 1) Civic Engagement project; 2) Letter to teachers; 3) Data Collection mini-project; 4) Entry 3. What do you need from Anne/Monica or others at this point?
7. Data collection mini-projects will be shared next week. When you get back to class, sign up for Tuesday or Thursday. Take a look at the 6 questions and the rubric on Moodle. We mentioned just sharing your work, but consider how you might present your themes in a meaningful/interesting way. Be ready to share.

 

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