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. Week 1: What is the name of the presenter in the Module videos? | Janine Forbes-Rolfe | 2. Week 2: What is the name of the 3 case study teachers? | Sue, Ellen and Peta | 3. Week 3: What are the 4 schemas for teaching Humanities? | Concept based, issues based, Skills based and Discipline based. | 4. Week 4: Who is the author of “The Culture of Right Answers”? | Buchanan | 5. Week 5: What is the term in History for questioning historical truth? | Contestability | 6. Week 6: What is the term to describe seeing time as the interconnection of past, present and future? | Temporal learning | 7. Q7: Which eLA has been a publisher and textbook author? | Marghi | 8. Q8: Which 2008 document sets out the goals for Australian students? | Melbourne Declaration | 9. Q9: What is the year of publication for the text by Hoepper? | 2014 | 10. Q10: Which week’s activity asked you to create a word cloud? | Week 2 |
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