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. an effect that gives the illusion of depth | 3-D | 2. the part of a lowercase character (b, d, f, h, k, l, t) that extends above the x-height | Ascender | 3. an imaginary horizontal line along which the base of a letter sets | Baseline | 4. font style that makes characters appear darker than the surrounding text | Bold | 5. the height of capital letters from the baseline to the top of caps, most accurately measured on a character with a flat bottom (E, H, I, etc.) | Cap height | 6. any written or printed letter, number, or symbol | Character | 7. the horizontal distance of a character | Character width | 8. text that follows an outline in some type of curved or irregular pattern | Contoured text | 9. typefaces designed to attract attention; used in limited situations, mostly in large sizes for headlines or titles (also known as display font) | Decorative font | 10. the part of a character (g, j, p, q, y, and sometimes J) that descends below the baseline | Descender | 11. a decorative element available in font format | Dingbat | 12. the first letter in a story that is enlarged and lowered so the top of the letter is even with the first line of text and the base of the letter drops next to the rest of the paragraph | Drop cap | 13. a line the width of a capital M in whichever font is being used; is used to indicate a break in thought | Em Dash | 14. a line the width of a capital N in whichever font is being used; is used to connect ranges of numbers, dates, letters | En Dash | 15. a family of alphabetic characters, numbers, punctuation marks and other symbols that share a consistent design; often used synonymously with typeface | Font | 16. the appearance of type (e.g., bold and italics) | Font style | 17. nonsense text used as a placeholder for actual text; also known as lorem ipsum | Greeking | 18. the first line of a paragraph is flush left, but all remaining lines are indented | Hanging indent | 19. a feature that sets a temporary left, right, or left and right margin for paragraph text | Indent | 20. an enlarged letter that is used as the first character of a paragraph; may be dropped or raised | Initial cap | 21. printed in or using characters that slope to the right | Italics | 22. the adjustment of space between pairs of letters to improve its appearance or alter its fit | Kerning | 23. the space between lines of text | Leading | 24. a unit of measurement used ton describe the size of text; one point=1/72 of an inch | Point | 25. special formatting style that uses light color text on a dark background | Reverse type | 26. typeface without serifs | Sans serif | 27. formal or informal typefaces designed to imitate handwriting | Script | 28. typeface with projections extending off the main strokes of a character | Serif | 29. a formatting style that adds depth to text or other objects, aking them appear more three-dimensional | Shadow | 30. smaller uppercase letters that are about the same height as lowercase letters | Small cap | 31. a technique that allows text to flow aroud a graphic image | Text wrap | 32. a special formatting style creates the illusion of actual textures such as wood, metal, objects in nature, etc. | Texture | 33. adjusting the spacing between words, phrases, and extended blocks of text | Tracking | 34. the study of all elements of type as a means of visual communication; includes the shape, size, and spacing of characters | Typography | 35. a very short line of text (single sentence or phrase) that appears alone at the end or beginning of a paragraph or column | Widow/orphan | 36. the height of lowercase letters, specifically the lowercasex, not including ascenders and descenders | x-height |
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