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. Which poem refers to 'souvenirs'? | The Furthest Distances I've Travelled | 2. Which poem refers to 'sprouting golden crocuses'? | The Gun | 3. In which poems does the speaker have 'disturbed dreams'? | The Lammas Hireling | 4. Which poem has aspects of the supernatural juxtaposed with religion? | The Lammas Hireling | 5. The title of which poem could be described as personification? | Chainsaw versus the Pampas Grass | 6. Which poem contains the simile 'hips judder like a juggernaut'? | Eat Me | 7. Which poem uses the metaphor 'his desert island after shipwreck'? | Eat Me | 8. In which poem is someone left for 'six hours'? | Eat Me | 9. Which poem contains the metaphor 'new shoots like asparagus tips'? | Chainsaw versus the Pampas Grass | 10. In which poem does the speaker use the olfactory imagery 'gasoline smell'? | History | 11. In which poem is the speaker 'sometimes dizzy with the fear of losing everything'? | History | 12. Which poem contains the simile 'his eyes rose like bread'? | The Lammas Hireling | 13. Which poem begins with the word 'Today'? | History | 14. The speaker of which poem finds 'evidence of life in all this driftwork'? | History | 15. Which poem uses the adjectives 'cooking: jointing and slicing, stirring and tasting'? | The Gun | 16. Which poem talks about 'overdue laundry'? | The Furthest Distances I've Travelled | 17. Which poem begins with an epigraph from a poem by Matthew Arnold? | Dover Beach | 18. What term describes Daljit Nagra's coining of words that bring together two languages? | Punglish | 19. Which poem ends with the exclamatory 'flecked by the chalks of Britannia!' | Dover Beach | 20. In which poem does the speaker say 'we raise our charged glasses over unparasol'd tables'? | Dover Beach | 21. Which poem refers to a piece of music written by Mozart? | Please Hold | 22. Which poem says 'The is the future'? | Please Hold | 23. The speaker of which poem has a 'wonderful telephone number'? | Please Hold | 24. How many lines are in a villanelle? | 19 | 25. How many syllables are in a line of iambic pentameter? | 10 | 26. How many lines are in a sonnet? | 14 | 27. What term describes a stanza of 8 lines? | Octet | 28. What term describes a recurring image in a poem or piece of prose? | Motif | 29. What term describes repeated lines in a poem, similar to a chorus in a song? | Refrain | 30. What is Carys's favourite poem? | Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night |
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