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. 1. What is the main theme in a composition, the main themes in sonata form, or the main theme on which a fugue is based called? | Subject1 | 2. 2. What is the main group of ensemble instruments in a concerto grosso called?2 | Ripieno2 | 3. 3. What is the Relative major?3 | Relative major is the major key with the same key signature as one minor key.3 | 4. 4. What is a Bothy ballad?4 | An unaccompanied folk song, usually with many verses, from north-east Scotland.4 | 5. 5. What is the term for the 20th-century style where simple rhythmic and melodic figures are constantly repeated with very slight changes?5 | Minimalist5 | 6. 6. What is Alberti bass?6 | Broken chord accompaniment in the bass, often used in keyboard music6 | 7. 7. What is a cluster7 | A chord made of consecutive notes which clash.7 | 8. 8. What is the tempo that slightly speeds up and slows down to allow for expression. It literally means ‘robbed time’ called?8 | Rubato8 | 9. 9. What is a chromatic scale?9 | A scale of notes which move by the interval of a semitone. | 10. 10. Name at least five woodwind instrument10 | piccolo, flute, oboe, English horn, clarinet, E-flat clarinet, bass clarinet, bassoon and contrabassoon10 | 11. 11. What is Scherzo?11 | Scherzo literally means joke and is a lively movement in triple time11 | 12. 12. Who was the 1st composer to use the Scherzo in his symphonies. What period was this composer?12 | Beethoven, Classical period. | 13. 13. German-born English composer of the late Baroque era, was known particularly for his operas, oratorios, and instrumental compositions. He wrote the most famous of all oratorios, Messiah (1741).13 | George Frideric Handel13 | 14. 14. In which era the key forms of music for voice were: Opera. Operetta and early musical theatre. Songs (lieder, chanson).14 | In the Romantic Era. | 15. 15. What was one of the most important keyboard instruments in European music from the 16th through the first half of the 18th century? Name the era and the most famous three composers of this era.15 | Harpsichord.The Baroque era. Johann Sebastian Bach, George Frideric Händel, and Antonio Vivaldi, Claudio Monteverdi, Henry Purcell. |
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