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. Identify the words/phrases in the passage below that best help you to understand the meaning of the word “revolutionary”: So much of modern life is based on contributions from the Greeks. The United States current system of government, democracy, came from Greek civilization. Great Greek thinkers made revolutionary discoveries in astronomy, biology, and medicine. Their art and architecture also live on in modern times. | 2. 2. Identify the words/phrases in the passage below that best help you to understand the meaning of the word “isolated”: In the earliest days of Greece, the country was divided into small, individually governed city-states. City-states were isolated because they were separated by forests or mountains and were far apart. | 3. 3. Identify the words/phrases in the passage below that best help you to understand the meaning of the word “monumental”: Myths also told stories about monumental events such as the creation of human beings or providing answers to make sense of earthquakes and other natural phenomena that they could explain in no other way. | 4. 4. Identify the words/phrases in the passage below that best help you to understand the meaning of the word “weary”: The thought came to the three goddesses that Paris would not know who they were, and therefore he would not be afraid to judge between them. They were growing somewhat weary of the argument by then. So they tossed the apple down to him, and Paris put up his hands and caught it. | 5. 5. Identify the words/phrases in the passage below that best help you to understand the meaning of the word “brooding”: So for twelve days Achilles remained by his ships, waiting and brooding on his wrongs. But still Briseis wept in the hall of the High King, and Achilles sat among his ships, nursing his anger as though it were a red rose in his breast. | 6. 6. drought : famine :: _____ : despair (A) tragedy (B) friendship | 7. 7. recklessness : _____ :: pain : discomfort (A) safety (B) accident | 8. 8. crime : imprisonment :: _____ : accomplishment (A) completion (B) perseverance | 9. 9. quarrel : discord :: _____ : merriment (A) joking (B) talking | 10. 10. What is the central idea of the following paragraph from “The Role of Myths in Ancient Greece”? Many cultures have stories that have been passed down through the ages. These stories--called myths--are tales of gods and goddesses, monsters, and adventure. The myths from ancient Greece may be the best known of all cultures’ mythologies, and perhaps the most exciting. The myths of the Greeks, which have been told for thousands of years, are still enjoyed today. | 11. 11. What is the central idea of the following paragraph from “The Role of Myths in Ancient Greece”? Each culture creates myths that reflect its beliefs, which are often a result of its circumstances. For example, myths may be influenced by the geography of the country in which a civilization lives. Mount Olympus, a towering, snow-covered mountain in Greece, became known as the home of the gods in Greek mythology. The top of the mountain was so high and so unreachable to the Greeks that they said the gods and goddesses must live there. Myths are also personalized by what is important to a particular country or culture. | 12. 12. What theme does the following passage from “Black Ships Before Troy” share about mothers? Before ever Paris was born, Thetis of the Silver Feet had given a son to King Peleus, and they called him Achilles. The gods had promised that if she dipped the babe in the Styx, which is one of the rivers of the underworld, the sacred water would proof him against death in battle. So, gladly she did as she was bidden, but dipping him headfirst in the dark and bitter flood, she held on to him by one foot. Thus her fingers, pressed about his heel, kept the waters from reaching that one spot. By the time she understood what she had done it was too late, for the thing could not be done again; so ever after she was afraid for her son, always afraid. | 13. 13. What theme does the following passage from “Black Ships Before Troy” share about strength and weakness? Before ever Paris was born, Thetis of the Silver Feet had given a son to King Peleus, and they called him Achilles. The gods had promised that if she dipped the babe in the Styx, which is one of the rivers of the underworld, the sacred water would proof him against death in battle. So, gladly she did as she was bidden, but dipping him headfirst in the dark and bitter flood, she held on to him by one foot. Thus her fingers, pressed about his heel, kept the waters from reaching that one spot. By the time she understood what she had done it was too late, for the thing could not be done again; so ever after she was afraid for her son, always afraid. | 14. 14. Which of the following sentences from “Black Ships Before Troy” is an example of foreshadowing? (A) And Paris forgot the other two with their offers of wisdom and power, forgot also, for that moment, dark-haired Oenone in the shadowed oak woods; and he gave the golden apple to Aphrodite. (B) Her heart quickened as she looked at him, and once, still spinning, she snapped the golden thread. (C) So Paris had the bride that Aphrodite had promised him, and from that came all the sorrows that followed. (D) How it came about that Achilles agreed to this, no one knows. Maybe she cast some kind of spell on him, for love’s sake. | 15. 15. What does the golden apple in “Black Ships Before Troy” symbolize? |
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