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
4. Cut them out and place them around your class / school.
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!
4. A detailed case study in how to set up a successful QR Scavenger Hunt using this tool can be found here.
Question | Answer |
1. Which character is being referred to when it says: I love that fellow. I'd go to hell with him? | Stanhope | 2. How do the earwig races link to the allusion of Alice in Wonderland? | pointlessness of war | 3. Why did Raleigh volunteer to join the army? | hero-worship of Stanhope | 4. Who is "another little worm trying to wriggle home"? | Hibbert | 5. What does the name Dennis translate to? | intoxication | 6. What was it called when the army read you letters? | censorship | 7. What, or who, is "rugger"? | rugby | 8. How does Osborne advise Raleigh to view war? | romantic | 9. What is missing with dinner? | pepper | 10. What is an MC? | Military Cross | 11. What happened to men who deserted the army? | shot or court martial | 12. Who, or what, is a crocodile? | the government | 13. What is it called when a play, or novel, has a political message? | allegory | 14. What is Raleigh´s sister called? | Madge | 15. In Act I there is one scene, in Act II there are two scenes, in Act III there are three scenes. How does this structure affect the audience? | creates intensity in the pace and lots start to happen | 16. What does verisimilitude mean? | it feels true to life |
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