QR Challenge: Higher Music

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.How many notes are in a dominant 7th chord?	4
2. 2.Literacy question. Come back to base.	Lit
3. 3.What is the relative minor of C major?	A minor
4. 4.What is a motet?	Renaissance religious song. In Latin.
5. 5.What key signature has 1 flat?	F major
6. 6.Listening question. Come back to base.	Spanish
7. 7. If the tempo is very slow, what is the Italian term?	Lento
8. 8.What is an oratorio?	Religious work for choir, orchestra and soloists.
9. 9.What is minimalism?	Use of minimal material to create a piece.
10. 10.Demo question. Come back to base.	Play an augmented chord.
11. 11.Name the bridging section of a fugue which includes modulations.	Episode
12. 12.Name the three sections of a sonata.	Expos, dev, recap.
13. 13.Literacy question. Come back to base.	Da capa aria.
14. 14.What is a Scots ballad?	Song in strophic structure telling a story
15. 15.What language is a mass sung in?	Latin
16. 16.Demo question. Come back to base.	Play a major scale.
17. 17.Listening question. Come back to base.	Instrument
18. 18.What is a melissma?	More than one note per syllable.
19. 19.What time period would you expect to find a basso continuo in?	Baroque
20. 20.Literacy question. Come back to base.	Transposition

 

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