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. Ambassador to France during the American Revolution | Benjamin Franklin | 2. Listed grievances against King George III and gave reasons why the colonists were fighting for their freedom. | Declaration of Independence | 3. Leader of the Continental Army during the American Revolution. | George Washington | 4. Opening battles of the Revolutionary War. | Lexington and Concord | 5. Known for his “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death” speech. | Patrick Henry | 6. Issued by King George III preventing colonial settlement west of the Appalachians. | Proclamation Act of 1763 | 7. Opposed British taxation and formed the Sons of Liberty. | Samuel Adams | 8. After this battle, the turning point in the American Revolution, France began to help the colonies. | Battle of Saratoga (1777) | 9. Author of the Declaration of Independence (1776). | Thomas Jefferson | 10. Wrote Common Sense which persuaded many colonists to fight for independence. | Thomas Paine | 11. Officially ended the American Revolution.Britain recognized American independence and set the western border of the United States at the Mississippi River. | Treaty of Paris of 1783 | 12. Rights that cannot be taken away. | Unalienable Rights | 13. Where Washington’s army spent the winter of 1777-1778.Despite hardships, his army became a well trained, disciplined, and much stronger force. | Valley Forge | 14. This victory by the Americans in the Revolutionary War, won independence. | Battle of Yorktown (1781) | 15. Slave who was a spy during the American Revolution. His reports helped the Americans win at Yorktown. | James Armistead | 16. Complained that the Declaration of Independence did not say anything about women. | Abigail Adams | 17. Spanish governor of Louisiana who drove the British out of Louisiana, Alabama, and Florida during the American Revolution. | Bernardo de Galvez | 18. African American who was the first casualty of the American Revolution.He died at the Boston Massacre. | Crispus Attucks | 19. Patriot who lent his own money to the Revolutionary War government to help the war effort. | Haym Solomon | 20. French military officer who helped the Americans win their independence. | Marquis de Lafayette | 21. African American Patriot who fought at the Battle of Saratoga. He also was the first African American elected to public office. | Wentworth Cheswell | 22. After the Intolerable Acts were passed, she wrote plays making fun of the British. | Mercy Ottis Warren |
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