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 topic have you been learning about? | Victorians, Black Country or Industrial Revolution. | 2. Who was the Queen during the Victorian Era? | Queen Victoria. | 3. Did all children have to go to school at the start of the Victorian Era? | No there were no rules to say children had to go to school it was mainly the rich but some poor children could go to school at the church or charity schools. | 4. Name 2 places where some Victorian people would have worked? | factories, mills, mines and workshops etc. | 5. Children had to work, true or false? | true. | 6. Name 2 Victorian toys. | peg dolls, windmills, spinning top, skipping ropes, kites, wooden toys, dolls, marbles, tea sets, soldiers, rocking horses, trains etc. | 7. What board would the teachers write on in the school? | chalkboard. | 8. When Queen Victoria's husband Albert died, what colour did she always wear? | black. | 9. Railways were one of the changes brought in by the Industrial Revolution, true or false? | True. | 10. Women were paid more than men when they worked, true or false. | False. | 11. Name 2 things that were made during the Victorian Era. | telephone, motorcar, typewriter, bicycle, moving film, ships, bridges etc. | 12. Before trains were invented how did the people get around? | horses. | 13. What jobs would children usually do in the Victorian Era? | mines, chimney sweeps or factories. | 14. The Victorians discovered how to use electricity to make light, true or false. | True. | 15. Discussion question...If you could live like a Victorian, would you? Explain your answer. | Discussion answer. |
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