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. Where did the Industrial Revolution begin? | England | 2. Who invented the cotton gin?2 | Eli Whitney | 3. Who invented the seed drill?3 | Jethro Tull | 4. Who made a spinning wheel and named it after his daughter?4 | James Hargreaves | 5. What was the name of the invention he named after his daughter? 5 | Spinning Jenny | 6. ____ is a business owned by stockholders who share profits but arent responsible for its debts 6 | Corporation | 7. Who is a person who organizes, manages, and takes on the risks of a business? 7 | Entrepreneur | 8. _______ refers to the greatly increased output of machine-made goods that began in England. 8 | Industrial Revolution | 9. What is known as city building and the movement of people to cities? 9 | Urbanization | 10. ______ which is the process of developing machine production of goods, required such resources. 10 | Industrialization | 11. The first industry to benefit from industrialization was 11 | agriculture | 12. What was the Industrial Revolution? 12 | spread of mass production | 13. These people were part of a growing ______ class, a social class made up of skilled workers. 13 | middle | 14. What refers to the economic policy of letting owners of industry and business set conditions? 14 | Capitalism | 15. Who defended the idea of a free market and capitalism? 15 | Adam Smith | 16. What was the title of Adam Smith's book? 16 | The Wealth of Nations | 17. Who wrote the Communist Manifesto? 17 | Karl Marx | 18. What economic system did Marx eventually father? 18 | Communism | 19. What is the term known as a refusal to work that unions could choose to do? 19 | strike | 20. To press for reforms, workers joined together in voluntary labor associations called 20 | unions | 21. ______ is an economic system in which the factors of production are privately owned.21 | Capitalism | 22. What were larger fields known as?22 | enclosures |
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