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. True or False: You should stare at people when they sign. | False | 2. True or False: You can walk through a signed conversation if you are polite. | True | 3. True or False: If a Deaf person is near you, you should always use your voice. | False | 4. What are two ways the Deaf Culture and ASL are passed down to Deaf kids? | Residential schools and Deaf adults | 5. 90% | Deaf of hearing | 6. 10% | Deaf of Deaf | 7. Writing/texting | Most effective | 8. Yelling/ talking slowly | Least effective | 9. What are three ways to get a Deaf person's attention? | Lights, Stomping, Waving | 10. Edward Miner Gallaudet | Thomas' son who created GU | 11. Braidwoods | First stop in Europe refused to disclose secrets | 12. Why is Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet such an imporant, cherished person in Deaf Culture? | Creator of Deaf Ed and ASL | 13. What was the name of the first SCHOOL for the Deaf? When/where was it established? | American School for the Deaf, Hartford Ct. 1817 | 14. 1864 | When GU was established | 15. Laurent Clerc | Assisted Gallaudet in starting ASL | 16. Who originally motivated Gallaudet to learn about Deaf education? | Alice Cogswell | 17. What are the medical and cultural views of deafness? | Fixed versus fine |
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