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 was the nickname of Francis Marion? | Swamp Fox | 2. How did Francis Marion get his nickname? | War tactics | 3. What is the event that is said to have happened in 1781 involving Francis Marion and a British officer? | Officer switched sides due to skills | 4. What film exaggerates Francis Marion's life? | The Patriot | 5. From which American Indian tribe did Francis Marion learn his tactics? | Cherokee | 6. What was the name of John Paul Jones' ship? | Ranger or Bonhomme Richard | 7. What was the phrase John Paul Jones said when the British asked him to surrender? | I have not yet begun to fight. | 8. What country awarded John Paul Jones with the title of Chevalier? | France | 9. What two ships were involved against John Paul Jones in his most famous battle? | Serapis and Alliance | 10. What branch of the armed forces is John Paul Jones given credit for starting? | Navy | 11. What rank in the military did Nathanael Greene start the Revolution at? | Private | 12. What area of the United States did Nathanael Greene command his forces in? | The South | 13. What two forts did the Americans lose due to Nathanael Greene's advice to George Washington? | Fort Washington and Fort Lee | 14. What British general did Nathanael Greene face off against in the Southern United States? | General Cornwallis. | 15. What post did Nathanael Greene refuse to accept twice after the war ended? | Secretary of War |
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