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.
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1. What is your name? | your answer | 2. What is the text type called when you tell your own life story? | autobiography | 3. What is the text type called when you tell the life story of someone else? | biography | 4. What is a myth? | a story from a culture that tells the history or beliefs | 5. At the end of a question you should put what punctuation? | question mark | 6. What is one feature of a biography? | factual, in order, third person | 7. What is one feature of an autobiography? | first person, more detail and emotion | 8. In Te Ao Māori, who fished up the South Island? | Maui | 9. What is your English teacher's name? | Mrs Clegg | 10. On Mondays, what do you need to bring to English class? | Reading book | 11. When describing something you should use adjectives. What are adjectives? | describing words | 12. It is important to start each sentence with one of these? | capital letter | 13. On Fridays, we always start English class with this activity? | Writing | 14. In the Māori story about creation, Papatūānuku is the mother. Who is the father? | Ranginui | 15. Give an example of an adjective? | your answer | 16. Why do you get Friday off? | Good Friday | 17. What has been the best bit about this term? | your answer | 18. What has been the worst bit about this term? | your answer | 19. Next term in English you are going to write a biography, autobiography, creative writing or myth. Which one do you think you will do? | your answer |
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