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. What is a Symphony? | A large scale work for orchestra | 2. What is Gospel music? | Vocal music combining influences of religious texts, jazz and blues | 3. Give me 3 distinctive features of Classical Music | Piano, No harpsichord, sounded nice, etc | 4. What is the name for a piece of music played by solo bagpipes? | Pibroch | 5. What is Celtic Rock? | A combination of Scottish folk and rock styles | 6. Describe a Bothy Ballad and how to recognise one | Solo male, Scots, Complaining of working conditions | 7. Describe a Walking Song and how to recognise one | Call and response, female singers, Gaelic, banging of cloth. | 8. Describe a Gaelic Psalm and how to recognise one | Call and response, Gaelic, sounds messy, nobody knows words | 9. What is an Aria? | Solo song from an opera | 10. In an opera, what is a Chorus? | Choir | 11. Describe what Minimalism is | Repeated patterns which change slightly | 12. What are the characteristics of Indian music? | Sitar, Tabla. | 13. Describe a Tonality which is not Major or Minor and does not sound nice | Atonal | 14. What is a Perfect Cadence and what chords are used? | Sounds finished - V-I | 15. What is an Imperfect Cadence and what chords are used? | Sounds unfinished - I-V | 16. What is the difference between a Pedal and an Inverted Pedal? | Pedal - Held or repeated note in the bass; Inverted Pedal - held or repeated note above the melody | 17. What is a Chromatic Scale? | A scale which uses all note/semitones | 18. What is the name for a small, crushed note? | Grace note | 19. What is a Glissando? | Slide | 20. What is a Modulation? | Key Change | 21. What is the word used to describe 2 parts moving in opposite directions? | Contrary Motion | 22. What is a Trill? | A fast alternation between 2 adjacent notes |
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