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. Railroads play a significant role in transporting soldiers and equipment during this war. | Civil War | 2. The railroads created the first time zones in North America. They went into effect on this date. | November 18, 1883 | 3. Who is credited as the creator of the world\'s first automobile? | Karl Friedrich Benz | 4. When did Orville and Wilbur Wright make their first airplane flight in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina? | December 17, 1903 | 5. Henry Ford\'s first Model T, was a car that changed the automotive industry, and American life, forever. When was it introduced to the public? | September 27, 1908 | 6. With 1.2 million passengers boarding 9,000 inter-city trains and racking up 47 million passenger miles every day, passenger rail travel reaches its all-time high. When did this occur? | 1920 | 7. Who became an international celebrity when he made a successful transatlantic flight aboard his plane, the Spirit of St. Louis, traveling nonstop from New York to Paris in 33.5 hours?When? | Charles Lindbergh - May 20, 1927 | 8. Who was the first woman to fly across the Atlantic?When? | Amelia Earhart - June 17-18, 1928 | 9. After the stock market crashed in October 1929, America slid into a period of economic crisis called what? | The Great Depression | 10. Which president promised to revive the railroad and to lead the nation out of their economic crisis? | Franklin Delano Roosevelt | 11. When were diesel locomotives for passenger service introduced? | 1934 | 12. The US enters WWII after Pearl Harbor was attacked on what date? | December 7, 1941 | 13. In 1946, railroads handle two-thirds of the nation\'s commercial passenger traffic. Over the next two decades, railroad passenger volume steadily declines because of which two means of transportation? | Cars and airplanes | 14. For the first time, air travel boasts more passengers than rail travel. After a series of midair collisions jeopardizes the industry, the Federal Aviation Administration is created. When was the FAA created? | 1958 | 15. According to www.american-rails.com, ridership numbers for Amtrak were more than 30 million in 2011. When did Congress create Amtrak? | 1970 |
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