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. Stresses good family relationships and thinks education can transform people. | Confucianism | 2. Belief in a universal force and that people should follow the natural order of life. | Daoism | 3. Teaches that good behavior should be rewarded and bad behavior should be punished. | Legalism | 4. This is what the Eastern Roman Empire first became. | Byzantine Empire | 5. This ruler rebuilt Constantinople, conquered new lands, and his council created a single uniform code. | Justinian | 6. This man is responsible for blinding hundreds of men and sending them back to their leader. | Basil II | 7. The split of Christianity led to this church in the West, and this church in the East. | Roman Catholic/Eastern Orthodox | 8. This is the political and economic system based on land-holding and protective alliances. | Feudalism | 9. This group was the 2nd level of the social pyramid from the top in both Europe AND Japan. | Lords and Daimyos | 10. This is the term for the military dictator who ruled in Japan. | Shogun | 11. Learning declined during the end of the Roman Empire because of this reason. | Germanic invaders could not read or write | 12. This is how many years the Crusades were launched over. | 300 years | 13. This crusade failed after trying to reconquer Edessa from the Turks. | Second Crusade | 14. This man was the leader of the Third Crusade to re-take Jerusalem. | Richard the Lion-Hearted | 15. The ‘Holy Wars’ or crusades were launched because of these reasons (name at least 3). | Muslims controlled Palestine (the Holy Land), the Pope wanted to reclaim Jerusalem and reunite Christianity. Knights were quarrelsome, financial gain, etc. | 16. The Silk Road helped to connect these two places. | Europe and Asia | 17. This is what happened to Europe’s population between 1000 and 1300. | It doubled | 18. This is the portion of the population that died as a result of the plague. | 2/5 | 19. This is the empire that traded gold and salt and had able administrators for finance, defense, and foreign affairs. | Mali Empire | 20. This is the empire that had a centralized government with a Confucian bureaucracy and monopolies given they especially kept silk making a secret. | Han Empire | 21. This is the empire that has manageable territories governed by a central bureaucracy and a 14,000 mile long network of bridges and roads. | Incan Empire | 22. This is the empire that had a sultan with local officials and was the crossroads of trade between the East and the West. | Ottoman Empire |
Question 1 (of 22)
Question 2 (of 22)
Question 3 (of 22)
Question 4 (of 22)
Question 5 (of 22)
Question 6 (of 22)
Question 7 (of 22)
Question 8 (of 22)
Question 9 (of 22)
Question 10 (of 22)
Question 11 (of 22)
Question 12 (of 22)
Question 13 (of 22)
Question 14 (of 22)
Question 15 (of 22)
Question 16 (of 22)
Question 17 (of 22)
Question 18 (of 22)
Question 19 (of 22)
Question 20 (of 22)
Question 21 (of 22)
Question 22 (of 22)