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. Write down one main feature of Skiffle | acoustic/handmade instruments | 2. What concept would describe a musical upbeat | anacrusis | 3. Write down one main feature of Rap | Rhyming lyrics | 4. Name the technological development of Ragtime music | Player Piano | 5. What decade would you mostly find Synth Pop? | 1980 | 6. What type of melodic accompaniment would you find in Ragtime music? | Vamp | 7. When music sound bright and happy, what tonality would best describe this? | MAJOR | 8. Name a technological development of Synth Pop | Synthesiser, Drum machines, Sequencers | 9. Name the main instruments of a rhythm section in a Big Band | Drumkit, Double Bass, Guitar, Piano | 10. What musical concept best describes a musical pattern played over and over again | Ostinato | 11. Name a key innovator of Ragtime | Scott Joplin | 12. Name a main feature of EDM | Synthesiser sounds, samples, effects like reverb, sounds like rave, drum machine | 13. Glenn Miller was a key innovator of which genre? | SWING | 14. What structure describes ABA? | Ternary | 15. How would you describe sibilence? | S sounds | 16. What genre would you associate Erasure with? | Synth Pop | 17. What does syncopation mean? | off the beat | 18. What tonality describes music that is NOT bright sounding | Minor | 19. What is it called when musicians make music up on the spot? | improvisation | 20. What decade would you find Disco music? | 1970s | 21. What is a common structure used in Blues Music? | 12bar blues | 22. What is a distance of 8 notes called? | An Octave | 23. What decade would you find a Gramophone being used to produce music? | 1920'S-1940'S | 24. What decade would you find a CD being used? | 1990's onwards | 25. What genre would you mostly find Scat singing? | JAZZ | 26. When music changes key this is called? | A Modulation | 27. A musical ending is called....? | A CODA | 28. What effect makes the instrument sound fuzzy? | DISTORTION | 29. When a mic is too close to a speaker what can it cause? | FEEDBACK | 30. When no effects have been added to a track it is...? | DRY |
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