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 a pastoral | Is a poem that portrays sheperds and rustic life. | 2. Name one of Elizabeth’s porteges? | Sir Phillip Sidney, Raleigh, Marlowe | 3. Elizabthen poets wrote in what popular verse (it was the most popular form of love lyric)? | Sonnet | 4. Elizabethan Drama emerged from what source, name one? | Medieval plays, 16th century interludes, Latin and Greek classics | 5. England’s first theater and most famous was named what? | Globe Theatre | 6. The three types of plays Shakespeare wrote were? | Comedy, Tragedy, Historical | 7. Name two other playwrights of the time besides Shakespeare? | Marlowe, Johnson | 8. How did Puritans feel about the theatre? | They thought it caused people to sin. | 9. Who closed all of the theatres/playhouses? | The Puritans. | 10. People who studied the humanities studied what? | Art, history, philosophy, literature | 11. Humanists debated in using what two languages? | English, Latin | 12. Who commissioned to have the bible be re-written? | King James | 13. Name a theme of Cavalier Poetry? | Love, war, chivalry, | 14. Johne Donne was what type of poet? | Metaphysical | 15. Name themes of metaphysical poets? | Death, physical love, religious devotion |
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