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 was the outcome of the 19th Amendment? | Women received the right to vote | 2. Characteristic of the Progressive Era | Americans took steps to improve the problems that they recognized in society | 3. How did Theodore Roosevelt & Bull Moose Party impact the election of 1912? | Roosevelt split the Republic vote, allowing Democrat to win | 4. What was the motivation behind pushing for the 18th Amendment? | improve the moral and behavior of Americans | 5. Which president wanted to promote conservation? | Theodore Roosevelt | 6. What was the 16th Amendment? | income taxes | 7. Define Initiative? | law that was proposed by the people | 8. Susan B Anthony fought for who? | Women's right to vote | 9. Define Suffrage | Right to vote | 10. Define Recall | people can remove a official from office | 11. Which President established the Federal Reserve System and why? | Wilson; regulate money and financial panics | 12. Who founded the NAACP? | W.E.B. Du Bois | 13. Who was W.E.B. Du Bois? | African American leader, write and hef ounded the NAACP | 14. Define Referendum? | Votes decided if the bill proposed by the people should become a law | 15. Who believed that African Americans should develop work skills to achieve equality? | Booker T Washington | 16. What was the 17th Amendment? | voters had direct control over who rep. them in the US senate | 17. Who promised the Americans a "Square Deal"? | Roosevelt | 18. What was the Temperance Movement? and which amendment relates to this? | 18th amendment; banning of Alcohol | 19. How did Upton Sinclair's book The Jungle contribute to the change in government and business? | regulation requiring the inspection of food products; passing of the meat inspection act | 20. What was the the 18th Amendment? | Banning the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol | 21. Define Muckrakers | Journalist who exposed the "dirt" of the society | 22. What does initiative, referendum, recall, all have in common? | gave citizen direct participation in the government | 23. Who was Ida Tarbell? | wrote about Rockefeller and unfair business practice | 24. Whats the difference between flat money and gold standard? | Flat money was based on people trust in the government rather than on any actual value of the money |
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