Code Unlocked: A QR Route With Rules Questions

Each QR code asks a rules question with three answers, and each answer sends the group to a different cone. A right answer leads to a sports challenge; a wrong one leads to a review cone with the explanation and an exercise before heading back.

How to play

1. Explain the route and test-scan a sample code (4 min).
2. Groups of four run the route: scan, decide on the answer, go to the cone it points to and do the challenge they find there (20 min).
3. Class review of the most-missed questions, with a hands-on demo of each rule (4 min).
4. Each group suggests a new question for next lesson's route (2 min).

Rules

• The group decides before moving; no trying every answer.
• Jog between cones, and the tablet is carried by someone who isn't sprinting.
• At ball challenges, wait for the previous group to clear the space.
• At a review cone, read the explanation out loud before the exercise.

Variations

Adaptations

• Students with visual impairments: the tablet reads the question aloud and the group walks with them between cones.
• Limited mobility: place the cones closer together, with a seated version of each challenge.
• Students who struggle with reading: short questions with a picture and a partner who reads aloud.

Learning goals

• Learn and apply basic rules of several sports.
• Make quick group decisions.
• Use QR codes to learn independently.

Equipment for a class of 25

• printed qr codes: 10
• cones: 10
• tablets: 7
• assorted balls: 10
• hoops: 6

Teacher tip

Make the codes plain-text QR so you don't depend on Wi-Fi. Put the rule explained in one sentence at each review cone; that's where most of the learning happens.

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