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. At its height, how many people do you think were being buried on a daily basis in London due to the Black Death? | 200 | 2. What percentage of people died in a town or city once the Black Death had infected it? | 50% | 3. Religion mattered the most to medieval people, so many tried confessions, prayer and bleeding to treat the plague | 4. Apothecaries sold remedies and herbs were mixed at home based on old recipes, but they had uncertain and unpredictable results, nobody could come up with a cure that would cure all cases of the Black Death | 5. What were some symptoms of the Black Death? | Sneezing and coughing, boils and black buboes in the armpit or groin, fever, chest pains and breathing troubles. | 6. Did you know that the Black Plague still exists today? | 7. Did you know that the Black Death returned every 20-30 years? | 8. In 1345, there was an unusual positioning of the planets Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, which astrologers interpreted as a sign that something wonderful or terrible was about to happen (this was a supernatural cause of the Black Death) | 9. Most people thought that the Black Death was caused by Miasma and that breathing in miasma would cause a corruption to the body's humours | 10. To begin with, physicians tried bleeding and purging - the same things they would normally do to correct a humeral imbalance. Unfortunately, it didn't work and, in fact, seemed to make people die more quickly (treatments) | 11. Those who caught the Plague were expected to die within 5 days | 12. The physician of the Pope advised people to "Go quickly, go far and return slowly", many tried to prevent catching the Black Death and fled from London (including the Royal Family!) | 13. Although the local governments at the time did not have a lot of power, they introduced new quarantine laws to prevent the Plague from spreading. Quarantine lasted 40 days in isolation | 14. Because of the belief in miasma, the local government stopped cleaning rubbish, debris and dead animals from the streets, as it was believed the bad air from the rotting items would drive off the miasma causing the pain | 15. The Black Death was an outbreak of the bubonic plague, we now know that it was spread by the bacteria in fleas, on rats which came from the merchant ships travelling along trading routes. We also know that it was probably spread by flea bites, although some evidence suggests that it was also spread by the air. Remember that people during the medieval period did not know this! | 16. Contemporary accounts estimate that a third of the population of England died during the Black Death |
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