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 event marked the beginning of the Great Depression? | Great Depression | 2. Who was the confederate leader and general who surrendered during Civil War? | Lee | 3. Where did immigrants have to go before entering the US? | Ellis Island | 4. Which civil rights leader was a lawyer in landmark case and first black Supreme Court justice? | Thurgood Marshall | 5. What was the name of Roosevelt’s plan to create jobs and more security during the Depression? | New Deal | 6. Who was known as a writer during the Harlem Renaissance? | Langston Hughes | 7. Who decided to drop the atomic bomb on Japan? | Truman | 8. What was the name of the group of nations that came together to promote world peace? | United Nations | 9. Who was known for his scientific discoveries of the uses of a peanut? | George Washington Carver | 10. The ________ was built to shorten the distance between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans? | Panama Canal | 11. Who was the leader of the Soviet Union during the Cold War period? | Kruschchev | 12. Who was the dictator of Germany? | Hitler | 13. What was the name of the first African-American group of pilots? | Tuskegee Airmen | 14. Who was known for the invention of the assembly line? | Henry Ford | 15. Who wrote Gone With the Wind during the Great Depression? | Margaret Mitchell | 16. Where did the first flight take place? | Kitty Hawk, North Carolina | 17. Many churches set up __________ to give out free food during the Great Depression. | soup kitchens | 18. The _________ was a British passenger ship that was torpedoed during WWI. | Lusitania | 19. What is the name of the group of soldiers that Theodore Roosevelt was a part of during the Spanish-American War? | Rough Riders | 20. What was known as the largest water to land invasion in history? | D-Day | 21. Where did D-Day take place (specific city and country)? | Normandy, France | 22. What event caused the US to enter WWII? | Pearl Harbor | 23. Who was an African-American track star? | Jesse Owens | 24. _________ were laws that segregated blacks and whites. | Jim Crow Laws | 25. _______ was a symbol of the women who took over in factories during the war? | Rosie the Riveter | 26. Who was the dictator of Italy? | Mussolini | 27. What was the name of the New Deal program that cleared river valleys, built dams, and brought electricity to rural areas? | Tennessee Valley Authority | 28. Who was often blamed for the Great Depression? | Herbert Hoover | 29. Who was known for his transatlantic flight? | Charles Lindbergh | 30. Who was a jazz trumpeter during the Roaring Twenties? | Louis Armstrong | 31. Who was the prime minister of Great Britain during WWII? | Winston Churchill | 32. What was the term given to the separation of the communist and non-communist countries in Europe? | iron curtain | 33. Name two wars that began due to communism? | Korean and Vietnam | 34. The ______________ was used to get supplies to people in Berlin. | Berlin Airlift | 35. The area hit by large clouds of dust during the Great Depression. | Dust Bowl | 36. Who was known for promoting peace in order to reach racial equality? | Martin Luther King Jr. | 37. The ________________ was when Soviets placed missiles aimed at several American cities. | Cuban Missile Crisis | 38. Which country was the first to send someone to the moon? | United States | 39. Which country was the first to send a satellite into space? | Soviet Union | 40. Which civil rights leader was known for refusing to give up a seat on the bus? | Rosa Parks | 41. What was the name of the landmark court case that desegregated schools? | Brown vs. BOE | 42. In which war did the US send troops to Iraq after it invaded Kuwait to try to take over its oil supply? | Persian Gulf War | 43. What does “e pluribus unum” mean? | out of many, one | 44. A person who owns his/her own business is called ______________. | entrepreneur | 45. Which invention allowed many Americans to enjoy baseball and music during the 1920s? | radio | 46. _______________ is a type of tax where you pay an extra amount based on what you earn. | income tax | 47. _______________ is a type of tax where you pay an extra amount based on the amount of land you own. | property tax | 48. Local, State, or National: Post Office | national | 49. Local, State or National: City Parks | local | 50. Local, State, or National: Armed Forces | national | 51. Local, State, or National: | driver’s license registration |
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