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. The Ottoman Empire reached its peak size and grandeur during his reign, he streamlined the bureaucracy and simplified taxation. He was known as the "Lawgiver," the "Magnificent." | Suleyman I | 2. Europeans called him Othman, his followers were known as Ottomans. He built his small empire in Anatolia. | Osman | 3. Known as the "Conqueror," he led the Ottomans to the conquering of Constantinople, renamed the city Istanbul and turned the Hagia Sophia into a Mosque | Mehmed II | 4. Captured the holiest cities of Islam - Mecca, Medina, and Cairo | Timur | 5. How did the Ottoman Empire come to have such a diverse population? | Trade, Conquest, Religious converts | 6. Originally, before they were an Empire, what were the Safavids? | an Islamic religious brotherhood | 7. What was Isma'il NOT (shah, Safavid, Shi'i Muslim, or Anatolian Turk) | Anatolian Turk | 8. This person rebuilt Esfahan | Shah Abbas | 9. What religion did the Mughal emperors belong to? | Islam (or Muslim) | 10. He built the Taj Mahal in memory of his wife | Shah Jahan | 11. He was "The Great One," who added more territory to lands conquered by Babur | Akbar | 12. Isma'il conquered most of what is now | Iran | 13. The Mughal emperor that expanded the empire to its greatest size, but oversaw the power of his empire weaken | Aurangzeb | 14. His empire was taken when he was a boy. He came back as a young man, regained it and laid the foundation of the Mughal Empire | Babur | 15. Religious group who allied with Khusrau against his father, the emperor. Because of this, they became the biggest target of Mughal hatred | Sikhs | 16. This is the cause of the downfall of the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal Empires | Dynastic Degeneration |
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