QR Challenge: Music QR Code Hunt
Teacher Notes
A. Prior to the lesson:
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
- Download a QR reader (e.g. I-Nigma | NeoReader | Kaywa) onto their mobile devices
- Bring these devices into the lesson.
3. Print out the QR codes.
4. Cut them out and place them around your class / school.
B. The lesson:
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!
C. TIPS / OTHER IDEAS
4. A detailed case study in how to set up a successful QR Scavenger Hunt using this tool can be found here.
Questions / Answers (teacher reference)
Question | Answer |
1. Solve this problem: One half note times one quarter note plus one eighth note equals what? | 2 1/2
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2. What does the top number of the time signature mean? | How many beats in a measure.
| 3. Why do we have bar lines? | To separate the measure.
| 4. Solve this problem:One eighth note plus two quarter notes plus one eighth note equals what? | 3
| 5. Solve this problem: 4 sixteenth notes (together as one) times a half note minus one quarter equals what? | 1
| 6. Solve this problem: One whole note times another whole note divided by a half note equals what? | 4
| 7. What does a whole note equal? | 4 beats
| 8. What does a sixteenth note equal? | 1/4 of a beat
| 9. What does 5 whole notes equal? | 20 beats
| 10. How many beats do 2 sixteenth notes get? | 1/2 beat
| 11. What does a quarter equal? | 1 beat
| 12. What does a double bar line mean? | It ends the music.
| 13. Bonus: How many beats is a whole rest? | 4 beats
| 14. If mezzo piano means medium soft, then what does piano mean? | Soft
| 15. What is a whole note multiplied by a quarter note divided by a half note? | 2 notes
| 16. What would the time signature be if we had a dotted half note in the first measure, three quarter notes in the second one, one half note and a quarter note and a dotted half note? | 3/4
| 17. Create a 4/4 measure using only half notes, quarter notes, and eighth notes. | Multiple answers
| 18. Create a 3/4 measure using only eighth notes, sixteenth notes, and quarter notes. | Multiple answers
| 19. Create a measure 2/4 measure using only quarter notes and sixteenth notes. | Multiple Answers |
Music QR Code Hunt: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Solve_this_problem:_One_half_note_times_one_quarter_note_plus_one_eighth_note_equals_what?
Question 1 (of 19)
Music QR Code Hunt: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=What_does_the_top_number_of_the_time_signature_mean?
Question 2 (of 19)
Music QR Code Hunt: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Why_do_we_have_bar_lines?
Question 3 (of 19)
Music QR Code Hunt: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Solve_this_problem:One_eighth_note_plus_two_quarter_notes_plus_one_eighth_note_equals_what?
Question 4 (of 19)
Music QR Code Hunt: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Solve_this_problem:_4_sixteenth_notes_(together_as_one)_times_a_half_note_minus_one_quarter_equals_what?
Question 5 (of 19)
Music QR Code Hunt: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Solve_this_problem:_One_whole_note_times_another_whole_note_divided_by_a_half_note_equals_what?
Question 6 (of 19)
Music QR Code Hunt: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=What_does_a_whole_note_equal?
Question 7 (of 19)
Music QR Code Hunt: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=What_does_a_sixteenth_note_equal?
Question 8 (of 19)
Music QR Code Hunt: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=What_does_5_whole_notes_equal?
Question 9 (of 19)
Music QR Code Hunt: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=How_many_beats_do_2_sixteenth_notes_get?
Question 10 (of 19)
Music QR Code Hunt: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=What_does_a_quarter_equal?
Question 11 (of 19)
Music QR Code Hunt: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=What_does_a_double_bar_line_mean?
Question 12 (of 19)
Music QR Code Hunt: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Bonus:_How_many_beats_is_a_whole_rest?
Question 13 (of 19)
Music QR Code Hunt: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=If_mezzo_piano_means_medium_soft,_then_what_does_piano_mean?
Question 14 (of 19)
Music QR Code Hunt: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=What_is_a_whole_note_multiplied_by_a_quarter_note_divided_by_a_half_note?
Question 15 (of 19)
Music QR Code Hunt: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=What_would_the_time_signature_be_if_we_had_a_dotted_half_note_in_the_first_measure,_three_quarter_notes_in_the_second_one,_one_half_note_and_a_quarter_note_and_a_dotted_half_note?
Question 16 (of 19)
Music QR Code Hunt: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Create_a_4/4_measure_using_only_half_notes,_quarter_notes,_and_eighth_notes.
Question 17 (of 19)
Music QR Code Hunt: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Create_a_3/4_measure_using_only_eighth_notes,_sixteenth_notes,_and_quarter_notes.
Question 18 (of 19)
Music QR Code Hunt: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Create_a_measure_2/4_measure_using_only_quarter_notes_and_sixteenth_notes.
Question 19 (of 19)