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. Which system of government does the US and Germany have? | Federal | 2. Which system of government did the Confederate States of America use? | Confederation | 3. The France is an example of which system of power? | Unitary | 4. Which system of government allows the central government to control everything? | Unitary | 5. In which system of government does the power reside mostly in state governments? | Confederation | 6. Which system of government allows power to be shared between federal and local governments? | Federal | 7. Which system of government allows the central government to control everything? Power is not shared between states, counties, or provinces. | Unitary | 8. Who elects the Prime Minister in a Parliamentary Democracy? | The Parliament | 9. In a presidential democracy, who elects the legislators? | The people | 10. List 3 characteristics of a democracy? | Vote by secret ballot, all candidates can express views freely, free elections | 11. A _____ has a king, queen, emperor or empress. | Monarchy | 12. A ________ is where the leader has not been elected and uses force to control all aspects of social and economic life. | Dictatorship | 13. Which government is “Rule By the People”? | Democracy | 14. Which type of government has a few people in power such as a dominant clan or clique and gets its power from the military, wealth or social status? | Oligarchy | 15. The power to govern is held by one person. This is which type of government? | Autocracy | 16. A _____ has kings, queens or emperors who share power with elected legislatures. Generally, kings are nothing more than figureheads and are there by tradition. | Constitutional Monarchy | 17. Government control is exercised by a small group of people (such as a faction or clique) and citizen participation is decided by that small group | Oligarchy | 18. A form of government in which the sovereign power is divided between a central government and smaller regions like a state or province | Democracy | 19. One person holds all the power and people have no say-so in the government who gets their power through force or some type of overthrow | Autocracy | 20. A form of government in which the supreme power is held by the people who participate in their government by voting | Federal | 21. Is a loose union between states or provinces that has a central government with limited powers | Confederation | 22. One person holds all the power | Unitary | 23. What is the line of latitude at 23.5 South | Tropic of Capricorn | 24. The warm, humid region between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn is? | The tropics | 25. to buy goods and bring them into a country | import | 26. to sell goods to another country | export | 27. Taxes on goods coming into a country | tariff | 28. Refusal to trade with another country | embargo | 29. Restrictions on the amount/number of imported goods which can come into a country | quota |
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