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 geographic feature led to the growth of city-states in ancient Greece? | mountains | 2. What is the name of Sumerian writing? | Cuneiform | 3. What do Hindus believe happens to you after you die? | Reincarnation | 4. What did the Romans build to help control the empire? | Roads | 5. What did people learn in the Neolithic Revolution? | farming/growing crops | 6. What was a mathematical discovery in the Golden Age of the Gupta? | idea of zero | 7. What did the belief in humanism mean to the Greeks and the Renaissance? | Belief in the potential of people | 8. What did the Incas build to help them farm in the Andes Mountains? | terraces | 9. What did the West African nations of Ghana, Mali, and Songhai trade? | Gold and salt | 10. What code did knights follow in the Middle Ages to show loyalty to their lords and respect for women? | Chivalry | 11. Why did the Crusades begin in the 11th century? | Europeans Christians went to retake Jerusalem from the Muslims. | 12. What foods did Europe get as a result of the Columbian Exchange? | Potatos, tomatoes, corn | 13. Who paid the most taxes in France under King Louis XVI (16th)? | Third Estate/commoners | 14. Why did the Industrial Revolution begin in England? | Natural resources, rivers and harbors | 15. What continent was divided up by the European powers in 1898 at the Berlin Conference? | Africa | 16. What two countries were involved in the Opium War in the 1800s? | China and Great Britain/England | 17. What were the four MAIN causes of World War I? | Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism | 18. What was the immediate cause of World War I? | Assasination of Archduke Franz-Ferdinand | 19. What country did Japan invade in 1931 to begin World War II in Asia? | China/Manchuria | 20. What country did Hitler invade in 1939 to begin World War II in Europe? | Poland | 21. What German city was divided by a wall between the Western and the Eastern parts? | Berlin | 22. Who was the leader of Cambodia who violated his people's human rights in 1975? | Pol Pot | 23. What country suffered from apartheid until it elected a black president, Nelson Mandela in 1984? | South Africa | 24. What is an environmental problem in the northern part of the African continent? | Desertification |
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