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. Why was Missouri considered a border state? | Slave states that stayed inUnion | 2. What were the 4 border states? | Missouri, Kentucky, Delaware, & Maryland | 3. What does it mean to secede? | Breaking away from the country | 4. What is an abolitionist? | People who fought against slavery | 5. What is guerrilla warfare? | A fighter who is part of a small band of fighters | 6. What does assassinate mean? | When a leader or famous person is killed | 7. What does decision mean? | making a choice | 8. What was the Dred Scott decision? | ruledslaves were property to be boughtsold | 9. Describe three important things about the Confederacy? | Rebels, South, | 10. Describe three important things about the Union? | North, Yankees, USA | 11. Describe three important things about Abraham Lincoln? | antislavery, elected | 12. What was the main reason for the Civil War? | slavery | 13. What does it mean to be disloyal? | not supporting something | 14. What was the first battle of the Civil War? | Ft. Sumter | 15. Who were the bushwackers? | MO guerilla fighters who supported the Conf. | 16. What was Order#11? | General Ewing ordered MO families to leave theirfarms | 17. Who was Claiborne Fox Jackson? | Governor of Missouri during the Civil War | 18. Who was Jefferson Davis? | president of the Confederacy | 19. Who was Ulysses S. Grant? | general of the Union | 20. Who was Robert E. Lee? | general of the Confederacy | 21. Who were the jayhawkers? | Groups of men from Kansas attacked Missouri farms |
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