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 change happened in Europe as a result of Gutenberg’s innovation? | Far more books became readily available | 2. The destruction of feudalism and the growth of urban workshops resulted in part from changes in population caused by | the bubonic plague | 3. Money to support the arts in Renaissance Italy came primarily from | commerce | 4. The Renaissance artist most famous for his painting the “Mona Lisa” was | Leonardo da Vinci | 5. Humanist writers such as Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio emphasized | . the worth of the individual. | 6. Indulgences were considered a sign of church corruption because they were | pardons that people could buy | 7. Which reformer said that any Christian could read the Bible and understand God’s message? | Martin Luther | 8. The Council of Trent was part of the | Counter-Reformation. | 9. When sea voyages began to require sailing out of sight of land, this encouraged a growing interest in | astronomy for navigation. | 10. Galileo Galilei added support for the heliocentric theory by | observing the sky through a telescope. | 11. Isaac Newton’s “Principia” explained | the laws of gravity and motion. | 12. Who developed a new system for classifying plants and animals? | Carl Linnaeus | 13. Inspired by the Scientific Revolution, the Enlightenment thinkers believed that | natural laws influence human society. | 14. In “The Wealth of Nations,” Adam Smith argued for | a free market based on competition. | 15. What were the salons of French Enlightenment thinkers? | gatherings in private homes | 16. The Enlightenment overall promoted an attitude of | optimism | 17. How were the books "The Prince" and "Utopia" alike? | Both “The Prince” and “Utopia” gave suggestions for government and society. | 18. How were the books "The Prince" and "Utopia" different? | “The Prince” gave practical advice to rulers, saying it is better to be loved than feared. “Utopia” described an ideal society governed by reason, not kings,with shared property and equal rights. | 19. In the Glorious Revolution of 1688, the king of England was overthrown and replaced by a new king and queen. Which of the writers discussed in the chapter would most likely have been influenced, or was influenced by, those events? | Locke was likely most influenced by the events of the Glorious Revolution. The Glorious Revolution probably raised the question of when people have a right to overthrow their government. Locke answered that they may do so when the government fails to protect their natural rights. |
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