QR Challenge: WHO AM I?

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. I was a controversial leader of Conservative Party in 1980s. I privatised public transport and was firmly against coalmining. Iwon the Falklands War. I received the title of Baroness in 1992. I lived for 87 years.	Margaret Thatcher
2. I went to a private school, then to Harvard but when I spotted an opportunity to found my own company in 1987 I left university. My firm was the dominant one on the market in 1980s and 1990s. As I’m rich I gave over 28 billion dollars for charity. I’m not a glazier :)	Bill Gates
3. I was a writer and lived in the first half of the XXth century. I wrote about the growing influence of state control. People say that one of the most famous quotes from my books is: ‘All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.’	George Orwell
4. I was an artist of exceptional talent. I was a priest at first but then started painting. I finished my life in a lunatic asylum and shot myself dying two days later. My style of painting was quick and rapid. One of my most famous paintings depicts plants which seeds can be eaten.	Vincent Van Gogh
5. I am a singer and a musician. I used to be a teacher but then started my own band with Andy and Steward and won 6 grammy awards! I also had a very successful solo career. I played in 6 films, ‘Dune’ for instance and got involved in Amnesty International actions. One of my songs is officially the most requested radio song of all time.	Sting

 

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