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 lawmaking body of England | Parliament | 2. A religious Protestant group who wanted to purify the Church of England | Puritans | 3. People who wanted to separate from the Church of England | Separatists | 4. Group of English Separatists who established Plymouth Colony to seek religious freedom | Pilgrims | 5. The ship in which the Pilgrims sailed from England to Massachusetts in 1620 | Mayflower | 6. The first written plan of government in North America | Mayflower Compact | 7. Native American who served as an interpreter between the Colonists and the Wampanoag | Squanto | 8. Puritan leader who became the first governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony | John Winthrop | 9. A person who does not agree with the beliefs of his or her leaders | dissenter | 10. Banished from Massachusetts and founded Rhode Island for the separation of Church and state | Roger Williams | 11. Early, bloody conflict between the English and Natives, named after Metacomet | King Philip’s War | 12. Puritan minister who founded the colony of Connecticut | Thomas Hooker | 13. The movement of tens of thousands English settlers to New England in the 1630s | Great Migration | 14. Woman Puritan dissenter who was banished from Massachusetts and fled to Rhode Island | Anne Hutchinson | 15. 1st constitution of the colonies | Fundamentals of Connecticut | 16. Aka Religious Society of Friends, founded by George Fox | Quakers | 17. Name the four New England Colonies | New Hampshire, Connecticut, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island | 18. Name the economic specialities of the New England Colonies | Fishing, Whaling, Shipbuilding | 19. First college in America (in Cambridge, MA) | Harvard | 20. Whose Protestant theology did the Puritans’ believe? | John Calvin’s |
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