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 prose writing that tells about characters and events from the author's imagination called? | Fiction | 2. What is the time and place of the selection called?2 | Setting | 3. What is a series of events in a selection called?3 | Plot | 4. What are people, animals, or other creatures in a selection called?4 | Characters | 5. What is the perspective from which the selection told called?5 | Point of view | 6. What is first person point of view?6 | This is when the narrator is inside of the selection. | 7. What is third person point of view?7 | This is when the narrator is outside of the selection. | 8. What type of fiction is shorter than a novel but longer than a short story?8 | Novellas | 9. What type of fiction is a long work of fiction that can have subplots?9 | Novels | 10. What type of fiction has one conflict and one setting?10 | Short Stories | 11. What are the differences between fiction and nonfiction?11 | Fiction is not real and nonfiction is real. Nonfiction is usually narrated from the point of view of the author who is a real person. | 12. What is mood?12 | It is the way that a story makes the reader feel. | 13. What is author's style?13 | Author's style is every feature of language and organization that the author uses when he/she is writing a selection. | 14. There are three purposes of nonfiction. What are they and how are they used?14 | The purposes are to inform, entertain, and persuade. When you inform you are telling someone about something. When you entertain, you are trying to make them laugh and when you persuade, you try to get them to go along with what you are saying. | 15. What are the five parts of plot?15 | The five parts of plot are: exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution | 16. What is exposition?16 | Exposition is the background information you are given about a selection. | 17. What is the rising action?17 | Rising action is where the conflict is introduced to the reader. | 18. What is the climax?18 | Climax is the high point of interest in the selection where the tension increases for the reader. | 19. What is the falling action?19 | Falling action is where some possible solutions may occur. | 20. What is the resolution?20 | Resolution is where the conflict is resolved. |
Question 1 (of 20)
Question 2 (of 20)
Question 3 (of 20)
Question 4 (of 20)
Question 5 (of 20)
Question 6 (of 20)
Question 7 (of 20)
Question 8 (of 20)
Question 9 (of 20)
Question 10 (of 20)
Question 11 (of 20)
Question 12 (of 20)
Question 13 (of 20)
Question 14 (of 20)
Question 15 (of 20)
Question 16 (of 20)
Question 17 (of 20)
Question 18 (of 20)
Question 19 (of 20)
Question 20 (of 20)
