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. One of the products grown using slave labour | Sugar | 2. People who wanted to get rid of slavery | abolitionists | 3. The term used to describe the slave trade | Slave Triangle | 4. The name of the crossing over the Atlantic Ocean | Middle Passage | 5. Many slaves were locked like this on slave ships | Spoonways | 6. A large farm where slaves worked | Plantations | 7. A violent form of resistance | Active | 8. A non-violent form of resistance | Passive | 9. Most slaves were taken from here | West Africa | 10. Slaves were sold using this method | auction | 11. End of the slave trade in the British Empire | 1807 | 12. A form of punishment used against slaves | Whipping | 13. End of slavery in the USA | 1865 | 14. A method by which 75,000 slaves escaped | Underground Railroad | 15. A slave ship rebellion on a Spanish ship | Amistad | 16. One of the main slave trading nations | Britain | 17. One of the British ports that became rich through the slave trade | Liverpool | 18. Southern states in the Civil War | The Confederacy | 19. Northern States in the civil war | The Union | 20. How did the sailors make the slaves exercise | made them dance |
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