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. Who is Shakespeare's literary rival in life & in the film? HINT: In the film, he gives him the idea for 'Romeo & Juliet'. | Christopher Marlowe | 2. What is the name of Shakespeare's elite acting group? HINT: It was the group that Ben Affleck played the leader in. | Lord Chamberlain's Men | 3. What was the name of the two rival playhouses in the film? | The Curtain & the Rose | 4. What was the name of Shakespeare's theater in Elizabethan England? HINT: It is still the same name today. | The Globe Theatre | 5. Why were women not allowed to perform on stage? | They were believed to be inferior actors. | 6. What were the three different types of Shakespearean plays? | Tragedies, comedies, & Histories. | 7. The musical "West Side Story" is a modern interpretation of what Shakespearean play? | "Romeo & Juliet" | 8. Why did Shakespeare's plays only take place during the day time or during fair weather? | It had an open roof | 9. What were the settings of the Shakespearean theater like? How did they look? | Bland | 10. Why were the costumes so elaborate in Shakespearean theater | To compensate for the lack of scenery | 11. In the film, why were ALL of the plays shut down? What event caused them to be shut down? | The Bubonic Plague | 12. Who played the roles of women in Elizabethan England? | Young boys or men with high voices | 13. In a Shakespearean play, what is the 'inciting moment'? What does it mean? | The first moment that causes the entire play | 14. What must happen at the end of a Shakespearean tragedy? HINT: What makes a tragedy a tragedy? | Death | 15. What must happen at the end of a Shakespearean comedy? HINT: What makes a comedy a comedy? | A wedding | 16. What is a metaphor? | Comparison of two things without using 'like' or 'as' | 17. What is a monologue? | One person speaking on stage | 18. What is a dialogue? | Two or more people speaking on stage | 19. What is a pun? | A humorous use of a word with two meanings | 20. What is dramatic irony? | A contradiction between what a character thinks and what the reader/audience knows to be true | 21. What is comedic relief? | The use of comedy within literature that is NOT a comedy for relief |
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