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. What is the central idea or ideas explored by a literary work? | Theme | 2. What is the time and location in which the action of a narrative takes place? | Setting | 3. What s a literary device in which a writer gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story? | Foreshadowing | 4. What is the intense feeling that an audience goes through while waiting for the outcome of certain events? | Suspense | 5. What is a conversation between two or more persons. | Dialogue | 6. What is the language used by the people of a specific area, class, district or any other group of people? | Dialect | 7. What is the atmosphere of a piece of writing; it’s the emotions a selection arouses in a reader? | Mood | 8. What is the use of an object, person, situation, or word to represent something else (an idea) in literature? | Symbolism | 9. What is the events that make up a story? | Plot | 10. What is a literary element that involves a struggle between two opposing forces usually a protagonist and an antagonist? | Conflict |
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