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. ANALYZE | to look at something carefully by paying attention to its parts | 2. ATTITUDE | thoughts and feelings | 3. AUTHOR'S PURPOSE | The reason the author has for writing. ( Inform, persuade, express, & entertain) | 4. BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGE | what you already know | 5. CAUSE | why something happens | 6. CENTRAL IDEAS | The main unifying idea in the story | 7. CHARACTER TRAITS | words used to describe a character | 8. CHARACTERS | people or animals in a story | 9. CLAIM/POINT | what the author thinks | 10. COMPARE | similar | 11. CONCEPTS | what something is or how it works | 12. CONCLUSION | what will happen | 13. CONFLICT | challenges or problems | 14. CONTEXT CLUE | look at the words around an unfamiliar word to find clues to its meaning. | 15. CONTRAST | differences | 16. DESCRIBE | Tell the facts, details | 17. DETERMINE | figure out | 18. DEVELOP | to create (something) over a period of time | 19. DIALOGUE | Conversation between characters | 20. DRAMA | a story acted out live, using dialogue and action | 21. EFFECT | the result or consequence | 22. EVENTS | things that happen in a story | 23. EVIDENCE | how you know it to be true; example | 24. EXPLAIN | Answer to "why" questions | 25. EXPLICIT | clearly stated or shown | 26. FABLE | A brief story that leads to a moral, often using animals as characters | 27. FEELINGS | the emotions or moods of the character | 28. FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE | words or expressions with a meaning that is different from the literal interpretation | 29. FIRST PERSON PRONOUN | I, me, my, we, us | 30. FIRST PERSON | when a character in the story is the narrator | 31. FOLKTALE | a story handed down by word of mouth | 32. GENRE | A category or type of literature | 33. HISTORICAL FICTION | fiction; based on real historical events | 34. HISTORICAL TEXT | includes facts and important information about people, events or ideas | 35. IDEAS | a thought, plan, or suggestion about what to do | 36. IDENTIFY | Find; point out | 37. IMAGERY | Description that appeals to the five senses | 38. INFERENCE | uses background knowledge and textual evidence | 39. INTERACTION | to talk or do things with other people | 40. INTEGRATE | Bring together | 41. KNOWLEDGEABLY | in an informed way | 42. MAIN IDEA | What the passage is MOSTLY about | 43. METAPHOR | compares two unlike things without using like or as | 44. MYTH | A traditional story about gods, ancestors, or heroes | 45. NARRATOR | the voice that tells a poem or story | 46. PERSONIFICATION | giving human qualities to non-human things | 47. PHRASE | A group of words, not a complete sentence | 48. PLOT | the events that happen in the story | 49. POEM | a piece of writing that has lines and stanzas | 50. POINT OF VIEW | the view from which the story is told | 51. PROCEDURE | A method or way of doing something | 52. QUOTE | anything that's word for word copied from the text | 53. REACTIONS | the way someone acts or feels in response to something that happens | 54. REALISTIC FICTION | A story using made-up characters that could happen in real life. | 55. REASON | why the author thinks what they think | 56. RECOGNIZE | to know and remember | 57. REFLECTION | think deeply or carefully about. | 58. RELATIONSHIP | the way two characters in a story know each other | 59. RELATIONSHIPS | connection | 60. RESOLUTION | solution | 61. RESPOND | to react to something | 62. SCIENTIFIC TEXT | includes facts, ideas, concepts or procedures | 63. SECOND PERSON PRONOUN | you & your | 64. SECOND PERSON | Someone is talking to you | 65. SETTING | where and when the story takes place | 66. SIMILE | compares two unlike things using like or as | 67. SPEAKER | The narrator of a story, poem, or drama | 68. STATEMENT | something that is said or written | 69. SUMMARIZE | shorter version of the text | 70. SUPPORTING/KEY DETAILS | sentences that support the main idea | 71. TECHNICAL TEXT | Informational text with charts, diagrams, illustrations, and other visual elements | 72. TEXTUAL EVIDENCE | details in the text that support your answer | 73. theme | message or moral | 74. THIRD PERSON LIMITED | knows one of the character’s thoughts or feelings | 75. THIRD PERSON OBJECTIVE | knows no character’s thoughts or feelings | 76. THIRD PERSON OMNISCIENT | knows all the characters’ thoughts or feelings | 77. THIRD PERSON PRONOUN | he, she, it | 78. THIRD PERSON | told from someone who is not a part of the story | 79. TOPIC | subject | 80. TRAITS | how a character looks or acts | 81. UNLIKE | not the same |
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