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) Why did Northern workers and immigrants oppose slavery? | they feared that slaves, which received low pay, would take their jobs from them. | 2. 2) What is the Wilmont Proviso | the bill proposed to ban slavery to ban slavery in all territories acquired from the War with Mexico. | 3. 3) What formation did the Wilmont Proviso lead to? | the free soil party. | 4. 4) What happened in bleeding Kansas? | john Brown, an extreme abolitionist, wanted revenge. Went to Kansas and killed 5 me. | 5. 5) Who joined the other slavery opponents and formed the Republican Party? | Northern Whigs. | 6. 6) What was the biggest advantage of the Union? | More than twice as many citizens. | 7. 7) What was the biggest advantage of the South? | Southern solders had a real will to fight. | 8. 8) What was the goal of the North and what did they do to achieve it? | Bring the South back to the Union with the Anaconda plan. | 9. 9) –ERROR_Activation++ Invalid Response Syntax FAIL!! | 0Value | 10. 10) What was the biggest disadvantage of the army? | Diseases spread fast through army camps. | 11. 11) What was Johnsons amnesty? | idk | 12. 12) What were Black Codes? | Black Codes limited the freedom of Former Slaves. | 13. 13) What did the Civil Rights Act State? | People born in the US were considered citizens. | 14. 14) What did the 14th amendment state? | All people born in the US were Citizens and achieved te same rights as any other person. | 15. 15) Why Was Johnson Impeached? | He fired the Secretary of Defense without the Senates approval. | 16. 16) What were some responsibilities of women? | cleaned/ Did laundry/ Made dinner/ took kids to school. | 17. 17) What did Western Lawmakers do for woman? | They received for woman rights than the woman in the east had. | 18. 18) What state processed the most meat throughout the country? | Nebraska | 19. 19) Who are Mexicans? | Spanish- Speaking Southerners | 20. 20) Who is William Cody “Buffalo Bill” | Created Wild West shows that misinterpreted the west of the United States. |
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