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.
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| 1. 1. 1. Renaissance describes a time when people begin to ask questions and challenge old ideas. | true | 2. 2. Both the French Estates General and the British Parliament gave “the people” power like Congress does in the United States. | True | 3. 3. The Magna Carta limits the power of the king. | True | 4. 4. Michelangelo painted the Mona Lisa. | False | 5. 5. Leonardo De Vinci painted the Last Supper. | True | 6. 6. Raphael sculpted David. | false | 7. 7. Machiavelli was a Prince during the Renaissance. | False | 8. 8. Reformation was a change in the way people viewed the church. | True | 9. 9. Ignatius of Loyola was a protestant. | True | 10. 10. Martin Luther coined the term “predetermination” | False | 11. 11. John Calvin believed that indulgences were wrong and decided to write a letter to the local clergy about it. | False | 12. 12. Geoffrey Chaucer was a Renaissance writer. | True | 13. 13. What did people value the most during the Renaissance: Science or Religion? | Science | 14. 14. The Renaissance began in Italy because_________________ | wealthy merchants paid for artists. | 15. 15. Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of the Renaissance? A. Humanism B. Individualism C. Question reality D. Trusting authorities | Trusting authorities | 16. 16. Which of the following Renaissance pieces does NOT use the theme- Man’s connection to God or Jesus - as a way to express Renaissance ideas? A. the Mona Lisa B. Divine Comedy C. the Last Super D. The Decameron | Mona | 17. 17. Thomas More’s book based on a Utopian society, challenged the ideas of the church because it discussed his vision of a (powerful/perfect) world. | perfect. | 18. 18. Which of the following did NOT use the printing press to spread their ideas faster? A. Guttenberg B. Martin Luther C. Pope Gregory D. John Calvin | Pope Gregory | 19. 19. All of the following were clergy members, EXCEPT: A.Petrarch B. Martin Luther C. Thomas More D. John Calvin | Petrarch | 20. 20. Which of the following was NOT a complaint that Luther had of the Church? A. The Catholic church’s belief in pre-determination. B. The extreme wealth of the Church. C. The Pope had too much power. D. The selling of indulgences. | Predetermination | 21. 21. Which of the following was NOT a major principle behind Martin Luther’s 95 Thesis? A. Everyone’s life is predetermined. B. One’s passage into Heaven was based on behavior. C. Everyone should be able to read the bible and interpret it for themselves. D. Everyone is equal. | Heaven is not earned. | 22. 22. What did the Catholic Church do to Martin Luther? A. They burned him at the stake. B. They excommunicated him. C. They made him a monk. D. They ordered him forced him to make a public apology. | excommunicated him | 23. 23. The term pre-determination, suggests ___________________________ | your life is already decided for you. | 24. 24. Which was the result of the Reformation period? A. Removal of Pope during high religious ceremony. B. The spread of Catholicism through Jesuit teaching. C. Church of England coming back into the Catholic fold. D. long lasting dispute between the Catholics and Protestants in Europe. | Dispute between Catholics and Protestants. | 25. 25. The Age of Exploration was driven in large part by the search for wealth. | True | 26. 26. The first country to launch large-scale voyages of exploration was Spain. | False | 27. 27. Slave labor declined in the Americas as a result of the Age of Exploration. | False | 28. 28. An astrolabe was a light, fast sailing ship. | False | 29. 29. It is estimated that 90 to 95 percent of the population of the Americas eventually die from European diseases and sicknesses. | True | 30. 30. Europeans had developed a taste for goods from Asia dating back to the Roman Empire and trade from the Silk Road. | True | 31. 31. Explorer Amerigo Vespucci concluded that the land discovered by Columbus was not part of Asia, but a new land. | True | 32. 32. The first areas settled by the Spanish were in Canada. | False | 33. 33. Colonies in the Americas were allowed to sell raw materials to countries other than the home country. | True | 34. 34. Between 10 and 20 percent of all captive Africans did not survive the Middle Passage. | True | 35. 35. Between 15 and 20 million Africans were shipped to the Americas against their will. | True | 36. 36. According to the map titled “The Slave Trade,” where were most slave forts located? | West Coast of Africa | 37. 37. According to the map titled “The Slave Trade,” the British imported approximately how many slaves to their colonies? | 2.1 Million | 38. 38. According to the map titled “The Slave Trade,” the greatest number of African slaves were taken to | Brazil | 39. 39. “The stench of the hold. . . was so intolerably loathsome, that it was dangerous to remain there for any time. . . The closeness of the place, and the heat of the climate. . . almost suffocated us. . . The shrieks of the women, and the groans of the dying, rendered the whole scene of horror almost inconceivable.”—Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, 1789. In the passage by Olaudah Equiano, he describes __________________________ | a slave ship. | 40. 40. Which of the following was a conquistador? a. Malinche B. Henry Hudson c. Prince Henry d. Francisco Pizarro | Pizarro. | 41. 41. Planters in the Americas began to use African slaves for labor because_____________ | disease killed the Natives. | 42. 42. What was an effect of the Columbian Exchange? | Exchange of goods and ideas between societies’ way of life | 43. 43. Which of the following explorers is given the credit as the first to circumnavigate the world? a. Magellan b. da Gama c. Columbus d. Hudson | Magellan | 44. 44. What are the “three G’s? Also known as the motivation that caused European explorers to find a way to sail to Asia? | God, Glory, Gold. | 45. 45. How did the Renaissance contribute to the Age of Exploration? | by awakening a spirit of discovery and innovation in Europe | 46. 46. Sailors could calculate their location based on the position of the sun and stars in relation to the horizon with the (compass/astrolabe) | astrolabe. | 47. 47. The ultimate goal of the early Portuguese explorers was to ________________ | find a water route to India. | 48. 48. As a result of contact with the Europeans, the population of Native Americans in Spanish colonies dropped by more than ____ percent. | 90 | 49. 49. The Spanish used captive Africans as ______________ on sugar plantations. | slaves | 50. 50. The British colonized mostly in South America. | False |
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