QR Challenge: Fun Music Facts
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. Listening to music while working out measurably improves physical performance. | Fact 1
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2. You don’t like the original version of a song because it is better. You like it because it’s the one you heard first. | Fact2
| 3. Warner Bros. Music collected over $2,000,000 in royalties in 2008 for public usage of the “Happy Birthday” song. |
| 4. Your favorite song is probably your favorite because you associate it with an emotional event in your life. |
| 5. None of the Beatles could read music. |
| 6. Your heartbeat changes and mimics the music you listen to. |
| 7. Flowers can grow faster by listening to music. |
| 8. Elvis Presley didn’t write any of his own songs. |
| 9. The type of music you listen to affects the way you perceive the world. |
| 10. Barry Manilow didn't write his song called “I write the songs”. |
| 11. Leo Fender, inventor of the famous brand of guitars (the Telecaster and the Stratocaster) could not play guitar. |
| 12. “The Beatles” used to be called “Johnny and the Moondogs.” |
| 13. Europe has “Silent Discos.” You listen to music on your headphones. |
| 14. Kanye West’s music video, “All The Lights”, can cause seizures. |
| 15. Surgeons operate better when listening to music. | |
Fun Music Facts: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Listening_to_music_while_working_out_measurably_improves_physical_performance.
Question 1 (of 15)
Fun Music Facts: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=You_don’t_like_the_original_version_of_a_song_because_it_is_better._You_like_it_because_it’s_the_one_you_heard_first.
Question 2 (of 15)
Fun Music Facts: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Warner_Bros._Music_collected_over_$2,000,000_in_royalties_in_2008_for_public_usage_of_the_“Happy_Birthday”_song.
Question 3 (of 15)
Fun Music Facts: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Your_favorite_song_is_probably_your_favorite_because_you_associate_it_with_an_emotional_event_in_your_life.
Question 4 (of 15)
Fun Music Facts: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=None_of_the_Beatles_could_read_music.
Question 5 (of 15)
Fun Music Facts: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Your_heartbeat_changes_and_mimics_the_music_you_listen_to.
Question 6 (of 15)
Fun Music Facts: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Flowers_can_grow_faster_by_listening_to_music.
Question 7 (of 15)
Fun Music Facts: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Elvis_Presley_didn’t_write_any_of_his_own_songs.
Question 8 (of 15)
Fun Music Facts: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=The_type_of_music_you_listen_to_affects_the_way_you_perceive_the_world.
Question 9 (of 15)
Fun Music Facts: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Barry_Manilow_didn't_write_his_song_called_“I_write_the_songs”.
Question 10 (of 15)
Fun Music Facts: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Leo_Fender,_inventor_of_the_famous_brand_of_guitars_(the_Telecaster_and_the_Stratocaster)_could_not_play_guitar.
Question 11 (of 15)
Fun Music Facts: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=“The_Beatles”_used_to_be_called_“Johnny_and_the_Moondogs.”
Question 12 (of 15)
Fun Music Facts: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Europe_has_“Silent_Discos.”_You_listen_to_music_on_your_headphones.
Question 13 (of 15)
Fun Music Facts: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Kanye_West’s_music_video,_“All_The_Lights”,_can_cause_seizures.
Question 14 (of 15)
Fun Music Facts: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Surgeons_operate_better_when_listening_to_music.
Question 15 (of 15)