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.
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| 1. d north of the Arabian Desert | 2. d steel | 3. 3. What was the first religion of India? | 4. d Priests, Pharaoh, Merchants/Artisans, Scribes, Slaves | 5. 5. What was the material used to make paper in Ancient Egypt? | 6. 6. Most of the pyramids were built during the…. Kingdom | 7. 7. Who was Aristotle? | 8. d By providing unlimited contact with countries to the east and the west. | 9. 9. Legend says that the founders of Rome Romulus and Remus were raised by | . | 10. d tools | 11. 11. A region of the Middle East that stretches in a large, crescent-shaped curve from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea. | 12. 12. Name one of the four types of government that Greece once had? | 13. 13. The Parthenon was a temple dedicated to which Greek god(dess)? | 14. c Confucianism | 15. 15. The Silk Road was a trade route between . | 16. 16. Why is the Rosetta Stone significant? | 17. 17. The system of levees and canals used to divert water to crops is called . | 18. 18. People who move from place to place and have no permanent home are called | 19. 19. What is the Parthenon? | 20. 20. How does the Yellow River (Huang He) get its name? | 21. 21. Who did the Assyrians conquer? | 22. 22. Which of the following accomplishments did King Menes achieve? | 23. c Unified both Uper and Lower Egypt into one kingdom | 24. 23. Thucydides was a greek historian who wrote about what? | 25. 24. Because of its flooding, what is the the Huang River was known as? | 26. 25. What is the oldest accepted Chinese dynasty? | 27. c Gunpowder | 28. 28. In which region is Athens located? | 29. 29. Pyramids were built so Egyptians could... | 30. 30. What did archaeologists find to help them understand ancient Egypt better? | 31. 31. The first major civilization in Mesopotamia was? | 32. 32. A writer from ancient times is known as a what? | 33. d The Sumerians were ditheistic | 34. 34. The constant cycle of life, death, and rebirth is called... | 35. 35. According to Hindu belief, is the force created by a person's good and bad deeds that affects his or her future life. | 36. d Assyrian | 37. d Women |
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