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. 1. The ancient civilization known for having a direct democracy | Athens | 2. 2. The ancient civilization known for having a republic | Rome | 3. 3. In order to vote in Athens, you had to be a free citizen, adult _________ | Male | 4. 4. The type of government where people vote for representatives to make decisions | Republic | 5. 5. The type of government where people vote directly on everything | Direct democracy | 6. 6. The Romans had a set of laws that were displayed for all to read. What were they called? | 12 tables | 7. 7. This person made Athens more democratic by paying public officials so that poor citizens could afford to do these jobs. | Pericles | 8. 8. The wealthy in Roman society were called the (sound it out, spelling doesn’t count). | Patricians | 9. 9. The poor in Roman society were called the (sound it out, spelling doesn’t count). | Plebeians | 10. 10. A type of government with a king or queen | monarchy | 11. 11. A type of government where the king/queen has complete control with no limits | Absolute monarchy | 12. 12. The idea that the right to rule was given by god | Divine right | 13. 13. A government that has a king/queen but their power is limited by a constitution | Constitutional monarchy | 14. 14. The branch of government that makes the laws | legislative | 15. 15. Rome’s government was separated into _______________________ (2 words). This way, power isn’t concentrated into one person or group. | 3 branches | 16. 16. Roman government had a senate, assemblies, and a position called a ____________________. This was like a president, but there were 2 every year. | consul | 17. 17. This document is VERY old. It was written in 1215 and was meant to guarantee rights to the nobility. | Magna Carta | 18. 18. This person was forced by the English nobility to sign the Magna Carta, but he ignored it afterwards. | King John | 19. 19. This person was forced to sign a document called the Petition of Right in return for raising taxes. He signed it, raised taxes, ignored his promises, and started a Civil War (causing him to be executed). | Charles I | 20. 20. William and Mary of Orange overthrew Mary’s father, James II, without any fighting or bloodshed. This event became known as the | Glorious Revolution | 21. 21. William and Mary of Orange voluntary signed this document which granted specific rights to the English people | English Bill of Rights | 22. 22. William and Mary of Orange became constitutional monarchs, or monarchs with limits to their power, because they shared power with this part of government | Parliament | 23. 23. The Declaration of Independence was written by | Thomas Jefferson | 24. 24. What was the purpose of the Declaration of Independence (Why was it written)? | To separate from Great Britain | 25. 25. This philosopher believed that people had natural rights such as life, liberty, and property | John Locke | 26. 26. This philosopher believed that government should be separated into 3 branches, but he didn’t believe that everyone is equal in society. | Montesquieu | 27. 27. This philosopher believed that an absolute monarchy was the best type of government because people needed to be tightly controlled. | Hobbes | 28. 28. This philosopher believed that the best type of government was a direct democracy because it gets the closest to our natural state of freedom. | Rousseau | 29. 29. Before the French Revolution, the people were divided into 3 social classes called estates. The first estate was made up of the __________________, the 2nd was the ___________________, and the third included ____________________. | Clergy,Nobility,Everyone else | 30. 30. What was the name of the document that declared all French citizens were equal and explained their rights? (It’s long, write the whole thing!) | Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen | 31. 31. The U.S. and France have many rights in common, but used different words to describe them. For example, in France they say that “No one shall be disquieted on account of his opinions, including his religious views.” In America, we list that as 2 different rights. The freedom of _____________________, and the freedom of _________________. | Speech,religion | 32. 32. The meeting in 1884-1885 where Europeans decided how to carve up the African continent for themselves. | Berlin Conference | 33. 33. These wars took place between China and Britain, China lost. | Opium Wars | 34. 34. What did Britain want from China that China would not allow? | To sell Opium in China | 35. 35. What were the motives of imperialism? | Economic, Ideological, Political, Religious, Exploratory | 36. 36. The British controlling the cotton trade in India is an example of which motive of imperialism? | Economic | 37. 37. American missionaries trying to convert Liberians (in Africa) to Christianity is an example of which motive of imperialism? | Religious | 38. 38. The Industrial revolution was a change from making products by ________________ to making products by ___________________. | Hand,machine | 39. 39. The Industrial Revolution created factory jobs located in cities causing major population shifts from the country to the city. This is known as | urbanization | 40. 40. During the Industrial Revolution, factories used _____________ labor, which is now illegal. | child |
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