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. to take someone else’s work or words and use them for your own. | 2. where something may be found upon the earth.2 | 3. uses latitude/longitude to identify where something may be found upon the earth.3 | 4. imaginary lines that run east and west around the globe but measure north and south.4 | 5. imaginary lines that run north and south around the globe but measures east and west.5 | 6. an area defined by common characteristics.6 | 7. describes the appearance using physical and human characteristics.7 | 8. the shifting of goods, people and ideas.8 | 9. how people interact with the earth.9 | 10. the study of the earth and everything on it.10 | 11. land, surrounded on all sides by water.11 | 12. water, surrounded on all sides by land.12 | 13. a river or stream flowing into a larger body of water.13 | 14. where a river begins, the source14 | 15. an area of flat, low-lying land adjacent to a seacoast and good for growing crops.14 | 16. the place where a waterfall prevents further up river travel.15 | 17. characteristics of country or farm life16 | 18. having to do with life in the city17 | 19. relating to land or the advancement of farming18 | 20. to produce something using labor and machines19 | 21. growing only enough food to support your own family and little else to sell20 | 22. large farms that utilize slave labor, particularly in the southern United States21 | 23. crops grown to sell fro a profit; tobacco, indigo, hemp22 | 24. crops grown for food; wheat, barley, corn23 | 25. a country or area under the control of another country and occupied by settlers from that country.24 | 26. a town in a colony.25 | 27. the practice of one person being owned by another26 | 28. belief that some people are inferior because of their race27 | 29. someone who agreed to work without pay for a landlord if the landlord paid for their passage to America28 | 30. variety29 | 31. flat land along a coast30 | 32. someone who disagrees with the official church31 | 33. to mistreat; subject to cruel or unfair treatment because of their beliefs or origins32 | 34. to allow others to have differing opinions without persecuting them33 | 35. with equal participation by all34 | 36. the principle that all people and institutions (even monarchs) are subject to and accountable to the law that is fairly applied and enforced35 | 37. to leave one country to live in another36 | 38. to arrive in another country to live37 | 39. to move within a country to settle38 | 40. division between different areas based on shared or common characteristics39 | 41. law making group 40 | 42. to bring into a country without permission.41 | 43. an economic system that increased money in a country’s treasury by creating a favorable balance of trade42 | 44. dividing political authority between several different branches of government so that one part does not gain power over the others43 | 45. each branch of the federal government has its own distinct power and may exercise control over the other branches.44 | 46. the idea that governments are established to protect people’s natural rights and if a government fails to do this the people have the right to abolish the government and establish a new one45 | 47. emotional panic46 | 48. the state or quality of having the same value47 | 49. to voluntarily refuse to use or purchase goods or services48 | 50. accommodation or housing49 | 51. communication or publicity aimed at influencing towards a specific point of view50 | 52. freedom from control 51 |
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