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. Tools used to do something | Devices | 2. Repeated VOWEL sounds in the middle of lines | Assonance | 3. Repeated CONSONANT sounds | Alliteration | 4. Matching VOWEL sounds in the last word in a line | End rhyme | 5. Words that sound like what they describe | Onomatopoeia | 6. Huge exaggeration | Hyperbole | 7. An unexpected and almost opposite outcome | Irony | 8. Rhythm or beat of syllables | Meter | 9. A physical structure of the poem | Form | 10. Description that appeals to the 5 senses | Imagery | 11. Words that make you feel a certain way | Mood | 12. Metaphors and similes that create an image that is not literally happening | Figurative Language | 13. A paragraph or chunk in poetry | Stanza | 14. What we call poetry because it is made up of beats and syllables NOT grammatical units like a sentence | Verse | 15. Parts of something | Element | 16. Figurative phrase whose meaning can NOT be understood from the literal definition of each word | Idiom | 17. "Hope" is the thing with feathers- That perches in the soul- And sings the tune without words | Figurative Language | 18. I hauled the hundreds of heavy handkerchiefs down the path through to hairy Harry's house | Alliteration | 19. __________s of language, ___________s of poetry, ___________s on the periodic table | Element | 20. Pun, connotation, contrast, irony are all examples of ____________ used in poetry to make it more interesting | Devices | 21. The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain | Assonance | 22. Life is but life, and death but death! Bliss is but bliss, and breath but breath! | End Rhyme | 23. Susie's galoshes. Make splishes and sploshes. And slooshes and sloshes. | Onomatopoeia | 24. I'M SO HUNGY I COULD EAT A COW! | Hyperbole | 25. "I posted a video on YouTube about how boring and useless YouTube is" This is an example of ________ | Irony | 26. Haiku or Cinquain | Form | 27. I’m glad the sky is painted blue, And the earth is painted green, With such a lot of nice fresh air, All sandwiched in between. | Imagery | 28. Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore— | Mood | 29. Duh-dum, Duh-dum, Duh-dum | Meter |
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