QR Challenge: The Amazing Shakespeare Internet Race
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. April 23, 1564 | Shakespeare's Birthday
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2. Stratford-Upon-Avon, England | Where Shakespeare was born
| 3. The Bard | Shakespeare's Nickname
| 4. Bard means poet, Shakespeare is the poet of all time | Why was he called The Bard
| 5. April 23, 1616 | Shakespeare Died
| 6. Anne Hathaway | Shakespeare's wife
| 7. Three | Number of children
| 8. Susannah and twins Judith and Hamnet | Children's Names
| 9. 37 | Number of plays Shakespeare wrote
| 10. Tragedies, Comedies, and Histories | Types of plays Shakespeare wrote
| 11. "The Theatre" built in 1576, owner James Burbage | Name of theatre where Shakespeare's plays were first performed
| 12. Midsummer's Nights Dream | Most widely performed play
| 13. Hamlet | Most quoted play
| 14. None | Number of manuscripts that have survived
| 15. The Black Death or The Plague | Epidemic that killed thousands of people in London
| 16. His second-best Bed (their marriage bed) | What Shakespeare left his wife in his will
| 17. Uranus | Which planet's satellites are named after Shakespeare's characters
| 18. 80 | Number of languages Shakespeare's works are translated
| 19. Anyone who tries to disrupt his grave(bones) would be cursed | What warning is on Shakespeare's tombstone |
The Amazing Shakespeare Internet Race: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=April_23,_1564
Question 1 (of 19)
The Amazing Shakespeare Internet Race: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Stratford-Upon-Avon,_England
Question 2 (of 19)
The Amazing Shakespeare Internet Race: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=The_Bard
Question 3 (of 19)
The Amazing Shakespeare Internet Race: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Bard_means_poet,_Shakespeare_is_the_poet_of_all_time
Question 4 (of 19)
The Amazing Shakespeare Internet Race: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=April_23,_1616
Question 5 (of 19)
The Amazing Shakespeare Internet Race: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Anne_Hathaway
Question 6 (of 19)
The Amazing Shakespeare Internet Race: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Three
Question 7 (of 19)
The Amazing Shakespeare Internet Race: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Susannah_and_twins_Judith_and_Hamnet
Question 8 (of 19)
The Amazing Shakespeare Internet Race: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=37
Question 9 (of 19)
The Amazing Shakespeare Internet Race: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Tragedies,_Comedies,_and_Histories
Question 10 (of 19)
The Amazing Shakespeare Internet Race: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text="The_Theatre"_built_in_1576,_owner_James_Burbage
Question 11 (of 19)
The Amazing Shakespeare Internet Race: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Midsummer's_Nights_Dream
Question 12 (of 19)
The Amazing Shakespeare Internet Race: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Hamlet
Question 13 (of 19)
The Amazing Shakespeare Internet Race: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=None
Question 14 (of 19)
The Amazing Shakespeare Internet Race: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=The_Black_Death_or_The_Plague
Question 15 (of 19)
The Amazing Shakespeare Internet Race: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=His_second-best_Bed_(their_marriage_bed)
Question 16 (of 19)
The Amazing Shakespeare Internet Race: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Uranus
Question 17 (of 19)
The Amazing Shakespeare Internet Race: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=80
Question 18 (of 19)
The Amazing Shakespeare Internet Race: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Anyone_who_tries_to_disrupt_his_grave(bones)_would_be_cursed
Question 19 (of 19)
