QR Challenge: The Call of Cthulhu

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. Give a short summary of chapter 2	1
2. Research the significance of the number 17	2
3. How does the significance of the number 17 fit into the story on page 7?	3
4. Report your findings to me :)	4
5. Go to E4	5
6. How old is the artefact? Pay special attention to page 8 here	6
7. How is Cthulhu described on page 8?	7
8. Why is the artefact/idol said to be even more terrifying on page 8?	8
9. What is the significance of the following quote: "They, like the subject and material belonged to something horribly remote and distinct from mankind as we know it; something frightfully suggestive of old and unhallowed cycles of life in which our world and our conceptions have no part"	9
10. Report your findings to me :)	10
11. Go to E5	11
12. Research the significance of the number 48	12
13. How does the significance of the number 48 fit into the story on page 9?	13
14. What do you make of the two last paragraphs on page 10?	14
15. How does the second to last paragraph on page 11 fit with what we know about the narrator so far?	15
16. Where did the Old Ones come from? Pay special attention to page 12 & 13	16
17. Where are the Old Ones currently?	17
18. Report your findings to me and start by giving me the password: Cthulhu	18
19. Go to my pigeonhole - 113	19
20. How do the Old Ones communicate with humans?	20
21. What is going to happen when Cthulhu comes back to life? How will he come back?	21
22. Why did humans fall out (of touch) with the Old Ones?	22
23. Why does the narrator go to visit Wilcox and Legrasse?	23
24. What happens during his visit to each of the two men?	24
25. What is the narrator's motivation for pursuing his uncle's knowledge? Pay special attention to page 16	25
26. According to the narrator, why did Professor Angell die, and how?	26
27. Report your findings to me :)	27

 

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