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 is Muslim place of worship called? | Mosque | 2. The environment of the Arabian Peninsula is hard to live in because | it is dry with very little water | 3. What are the Five pillars of Islam? | Declaration of faith, prayer 5x, alms, fasting, hajj | 4. Which empire, the Eastern Roman or Western Roman was more affected by the barbarian tribes? | Western | 5. The capital city of the Byzantine Empire was | Constantinople | 6. A schism due to differing religious traditions developed between the | East and West Churches | 7. What immense geographic feature did traders have to overcome in order to send gold from West Africa to markets along the Mediterranean? | Sahara Desert | 8. The trade good most in demand by the people of Ghana was | salt | 9. What was the main job of griots in West Africa? | Storyteller | 10. What river did West Africans settle on? | Niger | 11. This Mali ruler traveled with many people, and gave away gold while on his hajj? | Mansa Musa | 12. Less than 20 percent of Japan's land can be used fro farming because it is so | mountainous | 13. Under the code of Bushido, to whom did a samurai owe the greatest loyalty | His lord | 14. Leading monks in medieval Europe founded communities devoted to prayer and lived in | monasteries | 15. What was Christendom? | Community of Christians across Europe | 16. Why did feudalism develop in Europe? | Because governments were unable to protect people from invaders, local nobles took over this task. | 17. Which group of invaders raided and plundered Europe in the 800s? | Vikings | 18. Europe's feudal system depended on an exchange of __________ for __________. | Land for loyalty | 19. Rebellious English barons forced King John to agree and approve the ____________ in 1215. | Magna Carta | 20. Why did the Inquisition punish heretics? | Heretics might persuade people to leave the Church. | 21. How did the Black Death contribute to the breakdown of Medieval Society? | People questioned the Church and their place in society | 22. Non-church or non-religious | secular | 23. What is one positive outcome of the Crusades for Europe? | increased trade and exploration | 24. Why was the 4th Crusade a disgrace for Europe? | sack of Constantinople | 25. One of Florence's most powerful families that patronized the arts for generations was the __________ family. | Medici | 26. What was the Renaissance? | a great cultural revival that swept through Europe between the 1300s and 1500s | 27. mathematical system for representing three-dimensional space on a flat surface? | linear perspective | 28. the everyday spoken language of the people? | vernacular | 29. Why the Renaissance began in Italy? | location, trade & commerce, feudal not strong | 30. Two developments that helped promote the spread of humanist ideas were the __________________________ and ________________________. Choose two answers. | advances in printing and increase in literacy | 31. What did Thomas More write and why? | Utopia; criticized society, church, govt. | 32. Shakespeare's plays are still popular today because | his characters behave the way people still do today | 33. Why is Leonardo called the Renaissance Man? | He was knowledgeable in many different studies | 34. _________________________often called the person who launched the Reformation. | Martin Luther | 35. Luther posted a list of arguments called the ___________________________, which challenged the Church's authority. | 95 Theses | 36. Luther and Calvin both said that good deeds were not necessary in order to gain salvation because only this was needed | faith | 37. pardon for sins? | indulgences | 38. He translated the new Testament of the Bible into English. | William Tyndale | 39. __________ discovered the law of gravity that explained the force that pulls one object towards another. | Newton | 40. Europeans carried ___________________ to and from the West, which had a deadly effect on the population. | disease | 41. He was the commander of the first fleet to sail around the world. | Magellan | 42. He was the first European to sail around Africa to India and back to Europe. | Vaso da Gama | 43. To sail completely around the world. | circumnavigate |
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