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. John Locke was an ______________ philosopher. | Enlightenment | 2. Locke believes all men are: | Free, equal and have natural rights | 3. According to Locke all power comes from: | The people | 4. A "social contract" is: | People giving up rights and freedom in exchange for protection and ordered liberty. | 5. Government's powers are limited to those given time to it by the people is known as the : | Consent of the governed | 6. Locke's ideas challenged the centuries old practice of rule by: | monarch | 7. Thomas Paine wrote ______________ | Common Sense - a pamphlet challenging the rule of the colonies by Britain | 8. The Declaration of Independence was written largely by: | Thomas Jefferson | 9. The Declaration of Independence reflects the ideas of: | John Locke and Thomas Paine | 10. These are the "unalienable rights" | Life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness | 11. "All men are created equal" | An idea forwarded by Locke that is shown in the Declaration of Independence | 12. The Natural Rights of man according to Locke | Life Liberty and Property | 13. Where does government derive their powers according to the Declaration of Independence | "from the consent of the governed" | 14. When a government becomes destructive, what is our remedy as people? | To alter or abolish it | 15. What were the five rights that the Declaration of Independence claimed? | Life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, self-government and the right to alter or abolish government | 16. The Declaration of Independence increased ___________, _____________ and _________________ participation in the American experience. | Social, Political, and economic | 17. Abolishing slavery and extending rights to women are examples of expanding on the right of ____________ | Liberty | 18. Extending the vote and providing for free education demonstrate improvements to which right _____________ | Life (equality) | 19. Regulation of the free enterprise system, promoting economic opportunity and protecting property are examples of protecting this right ______________ | pursuit of happiness (economic participation) | 20. Anglo-French Rivalry | Britain vs. France for colonial power in North America | 21. French and Indian War | 1754-1763 | 22. Which side were the Indians on in the French and Indian war? | French | 23. Who won the French and Indian War? | British | 24. What territory did the French lose as a result of the French and Indian War? | All of their North American holdings | 25. Proclamation Line of 1763 | The line established after the French and Indian War to keep the settlers east of the Appalachian mountains. | 26. Believed in complete independence from Britain | Patriots | 27. Inspired by Locke/Paine and Patrick Henry | Patriots | 28. Provided troops for the Continental Army led by George Washington | Patriots | 29. Remained loyal to Britain because of cultural and economic ties | Tories | 30. Believed taxation of colonies was justified as payment for British protection from Indians/French | Tories | 31. Colonists who tried to remain uninvolved in the war as much as possible | Neutrals | 32. All of the colonies except Georgia send representatives to this body | First Continental Congress | 33. The only colony that did NOT send a representative to the First Continental Congress | Georgia | 34. The Minutemen of Massachusetts fought at: | Lexington and Concord | 35. These men were considered the culprits in the Boston Tea Party | The Sons of LIberty | 36. This event occurred when British soldiers fired on Anti-British demonstrators | Boston Massacre | 37. A tax on all legal papers | Stamp Act | 38. A tax on Sugar and Molasses | Sugar Act | 39. A tax on imports of tea | Tea Act | 40. Who negotiated the Treaty of Alliance with the French? | Benjamin Franklin | 41. The treaty between the colonies and the French was called the: | Treaty of Alliance | 42. The first foreign nation to recognize the independence of the colonies was? | France | 43. The commander of the Continental Army | George Washington | 44. The principle reason Washington is regarded as a brilliant general | He kept his troops from suffering devastating losses by striking and moving | 45. The French provided key military support to the Continental Army at the battle of: | Yorktown | 46. The Winter of 1777-1778 was spent by the Continental Army in harsh conditions at | Valley Forge, PA |
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