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. 1. I am the invention that made the cleaning of a cash crop faster but I increased slavery. | Cotton gin | 2. 2. I am the invention that made it possible to send messages over electric wire. | Telegraph | 3. 3. I made mass production possible with my idea of interchangeable parts. | Eli Whitney | 4. 4. I developed a steamboat that could travel upstream. | Robert Fulton | 5. 5. We are people who want to end slavery. | Abolitionists | 6. 6. I am the place in the U.S. where the Industrial Revolution began. | Northeast | 7. 7. I am the even during which manufactured goods were produced by machine instead of by hand. | Industrial Revolution | 8. 8. I am the movement of people from the farms to the cities. | Urbanization | 9. 9. I am the reform movement that wanted to get people to stop drinking alcohol. | Temperance | 10. 10. I am the reformer who wanted to improve public education. | Horace Mann | 11. 11. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and I organized this meeting to discuss women's rights. | Seneca Falls Convention | 12. 12. We were the typical factory workers. | Women and children | 13. 13. We were the secret network used by runaway slaves to escape to the north. | Underground Railroad | 14. 14. Aside from the cotton gin, these two inventions improved agriculture. | Mechanical reaper and steel plow | 15. 15. I was a famous abolitionist and publisher of the Liberator. | William Lloyd Garrison |
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