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 was the name given to the event when 200,000 people met in Washington to listen to Dr. King give his \"I have a Dream\" Speech | March on Washington | 2. These were whites and blacks who rode buses into the south and entered the white only sections of the bus stations in a peaceful protest of segregation | Freedom Riders | 3. This was the name given to the March on Selma which ended in blood shed | Bloody Sunday | 4. Name given to the event in 1955 when blacks in Montgomery refused to ride public buses 381 days in protest of segregation | Montgomery Bus Boycott | 5. Known as the Mother of the Civil Rights Movement she refused to give up her seat on a bus which led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott | Rosa Parks | 6. Name given to the event that took place in Birmingham where children marched in peaceful protest which led to the Civil Rights Act begin passed | The Children\'s March | 7. He was the lawyer who represented the Brown\'s in the Brown vs. Board of Education lawsuit and he became the 1st Black Supreme Court Judge | Thurgood Marshall | 8. When the Brown\'s sued the School system in Topeka, Kansas in order for their daughter to attend a white school closer to their home and led to the desegregation of public schools | Brown vs Board of Education | 9. She was the first black to integrate public schools and she completed 1st grade as the only student in her class | Ruby Bridges | 10. Nine high school students who integrated Central High School in Arkansas | Little Rock Nine | 11. This was where 4 little girls died when a bomb was set of in the basement | The 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham | 12. He was the 1st African American baseball player to \"break the color line\" in major league baseball | Jackie Robinson | 13. This means to protests injustice peacefully | Civil Disobedience | 14. This was the location of the first \"sit-in\" at a cafe counter | Greensboro North Carolina | 15. Name given to mean the separation of whites from blacks | segregation | 16. 4 events that impacted the Civil Rights Movement were | The March on Selma, Sit-ins, Bus Boycott, and Freedom Rides | 17. One tactic used to prevent blacks from voting in the 1960\'s was | to ask them to correctly name how many jelly beans are in the jar placed before them. | 18. What was the result of the Montgomery Boycott? | All public buses in Montgomery became integrated. | 19. What was the result of the Children\'s March in Birmingham? | The Civil Rights Act was passed. | 20. What did Dr. Marin Luther King, Jr. mean when he said that he dreamed that one day his children would be judged by the \"content of their character instead of the color of their skin\"? | He dreamed that someday his children would be judged by the type of person they are instead of their color. |
Question 1 (of 20)
Question 2 (of 20)
Question 3 (of 20)
Question 4 (of 20)
Question 5 (of 20)
Question 6 (of 20)
Question 7 (of 20)
Question 8 (of 20)
Question 9 (of 20)
Question 10 (of 20)
Question 11 (of 20)
Question 12 (of 20)
Question 13 (of 20)
Question 14 (of 20)
Question 15 (of 20)
Question 16 (of 20)
Question 17 (of 20)
Question 18 (of 20)
Question 19 (of 20)
Question 20 (of 20)
