QR Challenge: The QR Hunt

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 bullet points and why do we use them ?	To break lists in an informative text
2. What is alliteration?	Holly Hates Hollywood
3. What is a simile ?	using the word like or as to compare
4. What is hyperbole ?	A form of exaggeration
5. Produce a piece of descriptive writing regarding your favourite song	123
6. Produce instructions using bullet points for making your favourite food	123
7. What is emotive language ?	Extreme Emotional Language
8. What is personification ?	giving objects human qualities
9. What is an opinion?	a viewpoint that can be argued
10. What is a fact ?	a truth from which no debate can arise
11. 'Stanza' means what ?	a verse in a poem
12. Why do we use paragraphs?	to separate information in a text.
13. Two rules for the effective use of commas	12
14. What does imagery mean ?	describing an image so well that we can picture it in our heads
15. What is Onomatopoeia?	crash, bang, thud
16. What is point of view?	someone's own personal ideas.
17. What is sensory language?	using the senses
18. Write a short paragraph using all of the senses	12345
19. Produce a brief review of your first day at school	12334
20. What does rhyme mean ?	123445
21. What is persuasive language ?	language designed to persuade us
22. Produce a review of your story, produce 4 lines telling me what you could have done better with your story and what you liked about your story	123345
23. Who is Quentin Blake	An illustrator
24. What are three rules for the use of capital letters and full stops	12345

 

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