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. What was the 'jewel in the crown' of the British Empire? | India | 2. What was the name of the company which took over India? | East India Company | 3. What was the name of the man who conquered India? | Robert Clive | 4. What were the two African coasts that the British took slaves from? | Ivory, Gold | 5. Why is Nat Turner famous? | He led a slave rebellion | 6. What is Harriet Tubman famous for? | The underground railroad | 7. What religion was Malcolm X? | Islam | 8. Where did Martin Luther King deliver his famous 'I have a dream' speech? | Washington DC | 9. How many black students tested desegregation at Little Rock High School? | Nine | 10. What was the new form of power in the industrial revolution? | Steam | 11. What natural fuel powered the industrial revolution? | coal | 12. What was the killer disease of the industrial revolution? | Cholera | 13. What was the suffragettes motto? | 'deeds not words' | 14. What was the name of the other women's organisation, that campaigned peacefully for the vote for women? | suffragists | 15. Give three examples of tactics the suffragettes used to try and get the vote for women? | hunger strikes, bombing, attacking MPs, speeches, arson, smashing windows, vandalism |
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