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.
Question | Answer |
| 1. How many types of third person point of view are there? | 3 | 2. In first person point of view, is the person telling the story a character or narrator? | character | 3. In third person limited point of view, how many minds can we hear? | 1-2 | 4. What is the climax of a story? | The most suspenseful part of a story, where you learn how a character will overcome the conflict | 5. What is a conflict in a story? | The problem that the main character is trying to overcome. | 6. When you write a summary, are you suppose to give your personal thoughts or feelings about the story? | No | 7. True or false, an hyperbole is when two unlike things are being compared? | False, it's an exaggeration. | 8. What type of figurative language is, "Jump the gun"? | Idiom | 9. True or false, a round character we only know if the character is good or bad | False | 10. Authors have three purposes to write they are: persuade, entertain, and _______ | inform | 11. When the writer tells the reader what the personality of the character is, is it direct or indirect characterization? | direct characterization | 12. When the author shows things that reveal the personality of a character, is it direct or indirect characterization? | indirect characterization | 13. characters who remain stable, or unchanging, in their personal development throughout the text are ____________ characters. | static | 14. characters who undergo personal development and growth throughout the text are ____________ characters. | dynamic | 15. In the story of the Three Little Pigs, Is the wolf a protagonist or an antagonist? | antagonist | 16. What type of figurative language uses the words "like" or "as" to compare to seemingly unlike things? | simile | 17. The repetition of the initial letter or sound in a series of words. “The slimy, slippery snake slithered …” is an example of what kind of figurative language? | alliteration | 18. ________is the author’s attitude/feelings toward the subject. | tone | 19. ___________ is the overall feeling a reader has about a piece of writing. | mood |
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