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 determines the number of electors a state has? | Congressional Representation | 2. The idea that each state maintains its own sovereignty is found in which document? | Articles of Confederation | 3. Lower government power is derived from the? | State | 4. A business that the liability falls on the one owner is a? | Proprietorship | 5. A person who starts a business is known as a? | Entrepreneur | 6. Making one's vies known to the government is freedom of? | Petition | 7. Who proposes Amendments to the U.S. Constitution? | Congress | 8. The government may not treat a person in an unfair manner is known as? | Due Process | 9. One type of money is? | Federal Reserve Notes | 10. The Central Bank of the U.S. is the? | Federal Reserve | 11. Worldwide markets where nations buy and sell goods is known as the? | Global Economy | 12. Allows the government to tax income? | 16th Amendment | 13. Provides benefits to many and provided by the government | Public Goods | 14. What agency regulates trade? | FTC | 15. The flow of money,resources, goods and services is known as? | Economic flow | 16. Business will produce what consumers buy is known as? | Consumer sovereignty | 17. Private ownership, individual choice, Competition: Describe? | Free Market Economy | 18. Who files a complaint to recover damages? | Plaintiff | 19. Which court as a judge and a jury in Virginia? | Circuit Court | 20. Voting, Campaigning, and seeking office are all ways individuals influence public policy by? | participating in politics | 21. Lobbying, identifying issues, and making campaign contributions are ways who can influence public policy? | Interest groups | 22. Who makes ordinances and provides services for Isle of Wight County? | Board of Supervisors | 23. Improving water quality in the Chesapeake bay, is which primary issue for the legislative process at the state level? | Environment | 24. Division of power between the national and state government is known as? | Federalism | 25. Which role of the President would best describe the President if he was asked to go and speak at a foreign meeting to discuss his views on an issue? | Chief of State | 26. Powers listed in the Constitution are known as? | Expressed Powers | 27. Powers used to carry out powers written in the U.S. Constitution are known as? | Implied Powers | 28. When a bill is vetoed, what branch is the one "checking" another branch? | Executive | 29. Declaring a law unconstitutional is done by which branch? | Judicial | 30. What are the three factors in predicting who will vote? | Age, Education, Income | 31. What introduces new ideas/issues in the political process? | Third Parties | 32. The people are the source of government power is known as? | Consent of the Governed | 33. What document protects are fundamental freedoms? | U.S. Constitution | 34. "We the People" begins what part of the U.S. Constitution? | Preamble |
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