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. Use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse. Ex. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. | alliteration | 2. A major form of Japanese verse, written in 17 syllables divided into 3 lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables, and employing highly evocative allusions and comparisons, often on the subject of nature or one of the seasons. | haiku | 3. Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste) | imagery | 4. A figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke humor. | hyperbole | 5. A kind of humorous verse of five lines, in which the first, second, and fifth lines rhyme with each other, and the third and fourth lines, which are shorter, form a rhymed couplet. | limerick | 6. A figure of speech comparing two unlike things without using like or as. Ex. The coin was a bright, shining sun. | metaphor | 7. Poetry that tells a story. | narrative | 8. Restate a passage in one's own words while retaining the thoughts of the author. | paraphrase | 9. A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes. Anything nonhuman is given human characteristics. Ex. A wind came out of a cloud killing and chilling my Annabel Lee. | personification | 10. A kind of rhythmic, compressed language that uses figures of speech and imagery designed to appeal to our emotions and imaginations. | poetry | 11. Ordinary speech or writing without rhyme or meter; referring to speech or writing other than verse | prose | 12. One or more lines repeated in each stanza in a poem. Similar to the chorus in a song. | refrain | 13. A technique in which a sound, word, phrase, or line is repeated for emphasis or unity. It was many and many a year ago... | repetition | 14. The repetition of sounds at the ends of words. Ex. Cat, Hat | rhyme | 15. Rhyme that occurs at the end of two or more lines of poetry. | end rhyme | 16. Rhyme that occurs within a line, rather than at the end. Ex. Once upon a midnight dreary while I pondered weak and weary. | internal rhyme | 17. A pattern of end rhymes in a poem. | rhyme scheme | 18. A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things using the word like or as. Ex. The coin was like a bright, shining sun. | simile | 19. A group of two or more lines that form a unit in a poem. | stanza | 20. A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry. The beat of a poem. | rhythm | 21. The use of words whose sounds echo their meanings. Ex. Buzz, whisper, gargle, crash, bang. | onomatopoeia | 22. The words of a poem are not in the usual grammatical construction. Ex: "'I will not lie,' said she." Rather than, "She said, 'I will not lie.'". | inverted order |
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