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. The repetition of the same consonant sounds at any place, but often at the beginning of words | Alliteration | 2. The repetition or a pattern of (the same) vowel sounds | Assonance | 3. A person, place, or thing comes to represent an abstract idea or concept - it is anything that stands for something beyond itself | Symbol | 4. A line ending in which the sense continues, with no punctuation, into the following line or stanza | Enjambment | 5. A special form of alliteration using the softer consonants that create hissing sounds | Sibilance | 6. The use of pictures, figures of speech and description to evoke ideas feelings, objects actions, states of mind etc. | Imagery | 7. A figure of speech in which two things are compared, usually by saying one thing is another, or by substituting a more descriptive word for the more common or usual word that would be expected | Metaphor | 8. A figure of speech in which words are used to imitate sounds | Onomatopoeia | 9. A figure of speech in which nonhuman things or abstract ideas are given human attributes | Personification | 10. A phrase, line, or group of lines that is repeated throughout a poem, usually after every stanza | Refrain | 11. The occurrence of the same or similar sounds at the end of two or more words | Rhyme | 12. The pattern that is made by the rhyme within each stanza or verse | Rhyme scheme | 13. A figure of speech in which two things are compared using the word \"like\" or \"as“ | Simile | 14. Two or more lines of poetry that together form one of the divisions of a poem | Stanza | 15. The prominence or emphasis given to particular syllables | Stress | 16. When a word, phrase or image \'stands for\' an idea or theme | Symbol |
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