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. 1. In which century was Othello written? | 17th | 2. 2. Why is Brabantio angry with Roderigo at the start of the play? | He's told R. to leave D alone. | 3. 3. Who says "Keep up your bright swords, for the dew will rust them"? | Othello | 4. 4. Who says ""...an old black ram/Is tupping your white ewe" | Iago | 5. 5. What kind of evidence does Othello ask Iago to give him? What did Iago do to give Othello the "proof"? | ocular/handkerchief | 6. 6. What is a "beast with two backs"? | Having sex | 7. 7. The Venetians are preparing to do battle with whom? | The Turks | 8. 8. Who is Barbary? | Desdemona's mother's maid | 9. 9. Who is the "captain's captain"? | Desdemona | 10. 10. When Cassio is drunk, whom does he wound? | Montano | 11. 11. Complete the quote: "I shall wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at,..." | I am not what I am. | 12. 12. What does Desdemona ask Emilia to do on the night of her death? | Place her wedding sheets on her bed | 13. 13. Of what is the handkerchief symbolic? | Desdemona's virtue | 14. 14. What rank does Cassio hold before Othello strips it from him? | Lieutenant | 15. 15. Who kills Othello? | Othello | 16. 16. What's the missing word? It is ______ that Iago is often referred to as 'honest' | ironic | 17. 17. Iago considers our bodies to be gardens, but in explaining this, what literarty technique is he using? | Extended metaphor | 18. 18. Why might the play be set on the island of Cyprus? | Explain | 19. 19. What is Othello's hamartia? | his pride | 20. 20. How many characters die in Othello and who are they? | Four - Des, Oth, Rod, Emi |
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