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. It won't matter how many times you say I'm sorry. The wound is still there." | 2. He discovered it was easier to hold his temper than to drive those nails into the fence. | 2 | 3. There once was a little boy who had a bad temper. | 3 | 4. The fence will never be the same. When you say things in anger, they leave a scar just like this one. You can put a knife in a man and draw it out. | 4 | 5. Finally, the day came when the boy didn't lose his temper at all. | 5 | 6. His father gave him a bag of nails and told him that every time he lost his temper, he must hammer a nail into the back of the fence. | 6 | 7. He told his father about it and the father suggested that the boy now pull out one nail for each day that he was able to hold his temper. | 7 | 8. The first day, the boy had driven 37 nails into the fence. Over, the next few weeks, as he learned to control his anger, the number of nails hammered daily gradually dwindled down. | 8 | 9. The father took his son by the hand and led him to the fence. He said, "You have done well, my son, but look at the holes in the fence. | 9 | 10. The days passed and the boy was finally able to tell his father that all the nails were gone. | 10 |
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