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. South Carolina was a ___________ state. | slave | 2. South Carolina left the union because they thought __________ would try to abolish or get rid of slavery. | Abraham Lincoln | 3. This is where General Lee surrendered to General Grant. | Appomattox Courthouse | 4. South Carolina seceded from the Union because they wanted to form their own________ | country | 5. When South Carolina seceded they formed the ____________States of America. | Confederate | 6. The Civil War was caused mainly by disagreements over slavery and _______. | State’s Rights | 7. Who was the President of the Union? | Abraham Lincoln | 8. Who was the President of the Confederate States of America? | Jefferson Davis | 9. The North had factories. What did the South have? | the South had many plantations | 10. Where were the first shots fired for the Civil War? | Fort Sumter | 11. What was the name of the General that led the Confederate Army? | Robert E. Lee | 12. What was the name of the General that lead the Union Army? | Ulysses S. Grant | 13. The Union Blockade brought hardship to the people of South Carolina because they could not get food and_________ | supplies | 14. Who issued the Emancipation Proclamation? | Abraham Lincoln | 15. Which General used “total war” as he and his troops destroyed South Carolina? | General Sherman | 16. What was the H.L Hunley? | a submarine | 17. What was the purpose of Sherman’s March? | to end the Civil War | 18. When ships or soldiers are used to stop supplies or people leaving or entering a place it is called a _____________. | blockade | 19. The North was primarily different from the South because most people in the north worked in _____________. | factories | 20. __________ means to break away from. | secede | 21. _______ was a former slave that was elected to Congress. He escaped the South by sailing past the Confederate Forts he used to deliver messages to. | Robert Smalls | 22. ___________ was a document that gave freedom to enslaved people. | Emancipation Proclamation | 23. The destruction and burning of southern cities and plantations was known as __________. | Sherman's March | 24. What was the purpose of the H.L. Hunley? | to break the blockade of Charleston Harbor |
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