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.
Question | Answer |
| 1. What is the earliest form of musical entertainment in the U.S.? | Minstrel Shows | 2. Where did the first popular music come from? | Minstrel Shows | 3. What did they do in Minstrel Shows that would be socially unacceptable today? | Black face and act in a stereotypically black way | 4. What form of entertainment was made for the people by the people? Why was it "for the people?" | Vaudeville. Tickets were cheap and the entertainment helped divert people from rough life. Also, the jokes were made for the different cultural groups in the city. | 5. What type of show was Vaudeville? | A variety show | 6. This form of entertainment was rich and elaborate and featured beautiful women wearing magnificent costumes? | Ziegfeld Follies | 7. Where did the Ziegfeld Follies open their theater? | Broadway in NYC. | 8. What was the first "real" musical on Broadway? What made it different from other shows staged on Broadway? | Show Boat. The storyline was more important than the music. | 9. What sets the musical "Oklahoma!" apart from the other musicals that preceded it? | It explored relationships between the characters and used dancing to tell the story. | 10. List three musicals created by Rogers and Hammerstein II | Refer to notes and make sure they got the correct answer | 11. List three musicals created by Stephen Sondheim | Refer to notes and make sure they got the correct answer | 12. List three musicals created by Andrew Lloyd Webber | Refer to notes to make sure they answered correctly | 13. What two musicals are Schonberg and Boublil famous for? | Les Miserables and Miss Saigon | 14. List four musicals that Disney has brought to Broadway | Refer to notes to make sure they answered correctly | 15. Which theater did Disney purchase and restore? Who used to perform in this theater? | New Amsterdam Theater, Ziegfeld Follies | 16. What are two reasons why musical theater exists | Entertainment - an escape from every day life and a way of communicating societal issues |
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