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.
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| 1. Plagiarism | What is it called when someone copies the words, ideas, or thoughts of someone else and passing it off as their own? | 2. Paraphrasing | What is it called when you put a passage into your own words? | 3. Citation | What is it called when you give the author credit by putting their last name in parenthis after you have quoted or paraphrased their words? | 4. A fact or idea that is well-known that you don't have to cite | What is common knowledge? | 5. Self-plagiarism | What is it called when you recycle an old paper that is yours but pass it off as something new? | 6. Summarize | What is it called when just put the main idea of a passage into your own words? | 7. Read, reread, take notes, reconstruct the notes in your own words | What are the basic steps to paraphrasing? | 8. Summary | Which is shorter - a paraphrase or a summary? | 9. Parenthesis, the author's last name, and a page number if available | What does a correct citation contain? | 10. True | True or False - It's not okay to copy a lot of paragraphs from a source even if you put them in quotes and cite them. | 11. True | True or False - You can be kicked out of college or fail a class if you are caught plagiarizing. | 12. True | True or False - If there is no author to cite, you should use the name of the article or webpage instead. | 13. False | True or False - For an action to be considered plagiarism, it has to be intentional: it's okay if it is accidental. | 14. It is missing quotation marks around words taken directly from the source | Why is this plagiarized? | 15. It has no in-text citation and uses exact words or phrases from the source which could have been reworded | Why is this plagiarized? |
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