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. Kansas and Nebraska are organized as territories under popular sovereignty | Kansas-Nebraska Act | 2. Act of a state to leave a political union of a country | Secession | 3. President during the Civil War | Abraham Lincoln | 4. Southern practice of forced labor of African Americans | Slavery | 5. Attempt by South Carolina to declare federal tariff laws void | Nullification Crisis | 6. California becomes a state and a stronger federal fugitive slave law is passed | Compromise of 1850 | 7. Supreme Court case which recognized slavery | Dred Scott v. Sanford | 8. Support and loyalty to a certain region of a country | Sectionalism | 9. Tax or duty on imports to protect a domestic industry | Protective tariff | 10. African American leader of the abolitionist movement | Frederick Douglass | 11. Southern leader who attempted to nullify federal tariff law | John C. Calhoun | 12. Lincoln elected President and as a result the southern states secede | Election of 1860 | 13. Belief that states were sovereign and had rights | States\\\\\\\' rights | 14. Attempt to prevent slavery in territories acquired from Mexico | Wilmot Proviso | 15. Union of states which retain their sovereignty | Confederation | 16. Responsible for the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850 | Henry Clay | 17. Massachusetts senator who opposed nullification | Daniel Webster |
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