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. This term is defined as the way citizens organize and define themselves and their interests | civil society | 2. What term relates to constitutional practices that endure from government to government? | regime | 3. These ______ are stable, long,lasting organizations that help to turn political ideas into policy | institutions | 4. This term is defined as an arrangement in which government officials interact with groups outside the government before they set policy | corporatism | 5. Liberal democracies may also be called ______ where citizens have access to multiple sources of information | substantive democracies | 6. These cleavages divide society into many potential groups that may conflict on one issue but cooperate on another | cross-cutting cleavages | 7. These financial moguls were given an ultimatum by Putin to choose politics or business | oligarchs | 8. This Chinese leader led the Four Modernizations after the Great Leap Forward? | Deng Xiaoping | 9. This revolutionary leader of 1810 also served as parish priest | Hidalgo | 10. These MP's usually have difficulty gaining influence or the floor in the House of Commons | backbenchers | 11. This legislative chamber in Russia recently changed to an all proportional system | Duma | 12. A Gorbachev led reform focusing on free speech | glasnost | 13. These groups set themselves apart from other groups in the UK by being partially funded by the government | Quangos | 14. This concept requires power to be split among many groups that compete to influence decision making | Interest groups | 15. Information based on factual statistics | empirical | 16. The treatment of women in Iran can be summarized with this phrase | Equality with Differences | 17. What MOSOP founder was executed during Military Rule III? | Ken Saro Wiwa | 18. This type of political party de-emphasizes ideology in order to reach as many voters as possible? | Catch All Party | 19. this country utilizes a mixed electoral system | Mexico | 20. This term describes patron-clientelism in Nigeria? | Prebendalism | 21. The amount of reciprocity and trust that exists between the citizens and the state | social capital | 22. This concept ensures that legal rules rather than arbitrary decisions influence court decisions | rule of law | 23. True or False: Rational-legal authority relies heavily on a hereditary monarchy | False |
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