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 document expressed the idea: “If a government denies its people certain basic rights, that government can be over-thrown? | Declaration of Independence | 2. Why did the authors of the Articles of Confederation establish a decentralized political system? | to avoid being like the British | 3. Why is the court case Marbury V. Madison important? | It established the principal of judicial review | 4. Who do tariffs help? | Manufacturer | 5. Why did George Washington want the U.S. to stay neutral? | We needed time to gain strength. | 6. What is popular sovereignty? | When people in new states vote on the issue of slavery | 7. What belief did Thomas Jefferson have to modify in order to gain the Louisiana Purchase? | Strict Construction (Interpretation) | 8. Why did sectional differences develop in the US? | Each region had its own unique geographic conditions and economic interests | 9. What was the outcome of the court case Dred Scott V. Sanford? | Slaves were considered property not people and therefore do not have the right to sue | 10. What compromise enabled Maine to enter the Union as a free state? | Missouri Compromise | 11. What region experienced an economic boom due to the Civil War? | The North | 12. Beginning in 1850, why did most runway slaves try to go to Canada? | The Fugitive Slave Act kept them at risk in the US | 13. What is the general term for laws the establish segregation? | Jim Crow Laws | 14. What group people were involved in the Granger Movement? | Farmers | 15. What term can be described as a policy that allows immigrants to freely travel into a country? | open immigration | 16. What is the term for immigrants from Southeastern Europe? | New Immigrants | 17. What term describes people who hate immigrants? | Nativists | 18. Exaggerated news stories that sensationalize events are called ___. | yellow journalism | 19. In what region of the US did women get the right to vote first? | West | 20. President Theodore Roosevelt attempted to increase competition in business. This led to his nickname ____. | Trustbuster |
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