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. Parliamentary Democracy is a government set up, so that the people choose the legislature and the legislature chooses one of its members to be the head of the government.Turkey and Israel are examples of this government type | Parliamentary Democracy | 2. A Presidential Democracy is a government set up, so the people elect a legislature and a president that is separate from the legislature.The United States is an example of this government type | Presidential Democracy | 3. Autocracy is a government ruled by a monarch(king or queen) or dictator(military or political) with absolute power and the people have very little influence on the government.Saudi Arabia is an example of this type of government. | Autocracy | 4. Theocracy is a government ruled by a religious leader or group and the laws are based on religious teachings from the governing group's holy book. The people have little control and are only allowed to vote based on religious law.Iran and Saudi Arabia are examples of this type of government. | Theocracy | 5. Democracy is a government ruled by people of a country in which they elect representatives to make laws for them or directly vote on the laws that govern the country.The United States, Israel, and Turkey are examples of this type of government. | Democracy | 6. Scarcity, the idea that human wants are unlimited, but society has limited resources with which to meet these wants.Because of scarcity (i.e. the inability to give everyone all of the things they want,) societies have to make choices about what to produce, how to produce, and for whom to produce. | Scarcity | 7. Opportunity costs are the things people give up in order to have the next best thing desired. | opportunity cost | 8. Traditional economies, also called subsistence economies, are agricultural economies that produce things the same way ancestors have. | Traditional Economies | 9. Command economies are economies that allocate their production and, consumption, based on a central economic plan, typically developed by the government.Such government control may be in order to ensure fairness or to marshal more economic resources in pursuit of a goal of the state. | Command Economies | 10. Market economies are economies in which decisions about economic production are driven by price signals, which are in turn created by supply and demand. In a pure market economy, there are no taxes and no regulation. | Market Economy | 11. Specialization is an economic method of production whereby a country focuses on the production of a limited scope of goods or services to gain a greater degree of efficiency and then trades those goods and services for what they can not produce. | Specialization | 12. A Tariff is a tax placed on goods coming into a country. | Tariff | 13. A Quota is a limit on the amount of a foreign good that can be imported. | Quota | 14. A Embargo is an ending or prohibiting of trade between two countries. | Emabargo | 15. Exchange Rate is the conversion of one nations currency to anothers in order to purchase goods and services from a different country. | Exchange Rate | 16. Capital goods are durable goods used in the production of goods. | Capital Goods | 17. Human capital is the training and skills a worker has to produce a good. | Human Capital | 18. Entrepreneurship is someone who takes a risk with their own money to start a business. | Entrepreneurship |
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