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. When was the Battle of Bosworth (d/m/y)? | 22 Aug 1485 | 2. Which historian has a somewhat negative (realistic?) view of Henry VII's rule? | Christine Carpenter | 3. Where did Henry spend much of his time as a fugitive? | Brittany | 4. List 3 ways in which HVII consolidated his power in the short-term. | pre-dated reign, rewarded key supporters,marriage | 5. Name 3 ways HVII controlled the nobility. | laws against retaining, Acts of Attainder, bonds & recognizances | 6. What was the first (rather minor) rising against HVII and when? | Lord Lovell & Staffords, Easter 1486 | 7. Which Battle took place in 1487? | Battle of Stoke Field | 8. Who were the two pretenders and who did they pretend to be? | Lambert Simnel - Earl of Warwick, Perkin Warbeck - Richard, Duke of York | 9. Which two men are most associated with the Council Learned in the Law? | Empsom & Dudley | 10. What was 'The Conspiracy at Court'? | W Stanley, P Warbeck, 1495 | 11. List 3 ways HVII improved Crown finances. | CLIL - bonds, feudal dues,profit from wardship,customs revenue | 12. What were the two main functions of Parliament? | pass laws, grant taxation | 13. What was the Intercursus Magnus? | trade agreement between England & Burgundy, 1496 | 14. Name one benefit to HVII gained by the Treaty of Etaples, 1492. | French pension, CVIII withdrew support form PW | 15. The bulk of England's exports went through the ports of the Netherlands. name two ports. | Antwerp & Bruges | 16. Who was the main Yorkist supporter? | Margaret of Burgundy | 17. What complicated England's relationship with Spain? | death of Arthur, death of Philip of B, Juana went mad | 18. How many people comprised the nobility? | 50-60 | 19. What was Bastard Feudalism? | retaining | 20. What are real wages? | the value of income in relation to prices |
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