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 caused the US to declare war on Spain | Spain blew up the USS Maine | 2. Why did immigrants come to America | to avoid persecution, for work, for political freedom | 3. Describe the life of a cowhand on a cattle drive | long, boring, dirty, hard | 4. What group of people influenced American cowhands | Spanish | 5. Why did the cattle drives end | barbed wire, too much grazing, more railroads, loss of cattle | 6. What did the 19th Amendment do | gave women the right to vote | 7. JD Rockefellar is responsible for developing what monopoly | Standard Oil Company | 8. What industry is Andrew Carnegie responsible for | steel | 9. What did Alexander Graham Bell invent | telephone | 10. What did Thomas Edison invent | light bulb | 11. Why was the Panama Canal built | to make the traveling route shorter around the continents...South America and the US | 12. Why did Americans not like immigrants | they took their jobs | 13. How did progressives help | they took pictures of children working in factories to put an end to the cruel treatment | 14. Were longhorn cattle cheaper in the Southwest or in the north and east | Southwest because they were plentiful | 15. Why was their conflict between settlers and Plains Indians | settlers wanted Indians to leave their land and live on reservations | 16. What things did American Indians do to assimilate the Indians | made them lose their language in schools and change their religion |
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