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. What is the opposite of Utopia? Name three texts which are set in this type of world? | dystopia | 2. What adjective beginning with S best describes texts which hypothesise about future worlds? | speculative | 3. The Matrix features which philosophical concept starting with S? Write a brief definition and name the theorist who coined it? | Simulacra, Baudrillard/Plato | 4. Write a paragraph comparing the worlds of 'There Will Come Soft Rains' and 'The Matrix' | yeet | 5. Star Wars, while a science fiction text, embodies the conventions of which other genre? Why could this be? Write a few sentences | fantasy. George Lucas wrote it with Campbell's hero with a thousand faces in mind. | 6. Read the following article? What elements of contemporary society would you argue is prone for social critique https://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/nov/23/sci-fi-films-reflect-generations-of-earthly-fears-kubrick-2001-rerelease | lots of them |
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