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. Who was president of the US from 1861 to 1865? | Abraham Lincoln | 2. Who was president of the US from 1865 to 1869? | Andrew Johnson | 3. In which year did the civil war ended? | 1865 | 4. Name the two sides of the civil war | Confederate and Union states | 5. Where did the two armies get their soldiers? | all over the country | 6. How many confederate soldiers were available in 1861? | 112,000 soldiers | 7. How many union soldiers were available in 1861? | 187,000 soldiers | 8. How many mexican-americans served in the civil war? | 10,000 | 9. President Lincoln hated..... | slavery | 10. Who was Frederick Douglass? | Abolitionist who urged president to end slavery | 11. What is the Emancipation Declaration? | Free all enslaved people | 12. Who ran the farms and factories during the civil war? | Women | 13. What was the women role in hospitals during the war? | Nurses | 14. What did Dorothea Dix did for the war? | Recruited large # of women as nurses | 15. Who was Rose O-Neal? | Spy | 16. What was Rose O-Neal tactic to help the Confederate army? | Entertained Union |
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