QR Challenge: Cronulla Beach

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. 1. What is the importance of the poem’s setting?	Secret
2. 2. Why is it ironic that the beach used to be an aboriginal landscape?	Secret
3. 3. What does it mean that there are generations who want to keep themselves “pure and sterile”? What does this say about immigration issues in Australia	Secret
4. 4. Why did the white men rampage against colored people?	Secret
5. 5. How do you feel about this?	Secret
6. 6. In this discussion about immigration and race, where does the Filipino come in? Why is it an important concern for Filipinos?	Secret
7. 7. The pink seashells in the story gradually turned into sand. What could this be a symbol of? Explain.	Secret
8. 8. There is juxtaposition of the image of the riots with a postcard. Why was this done?	Secret
9. 9. Did the poem change the way you look at living or working abroad? Did it change the way you view Australia? Why or why not?	Secret
10. 10. The last line says, “So racializing, this soap.” What does it mean?	Secret

 

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