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. Made the Midnight Ride warning the minutemen that the British were coming/Artist of the Boston Massacre | Paul Revere | 2. Convinced the Virginia House of Burgesses to support the War with his famous speech, “Give me liberty or give me death”/He Spoke out against the Stamp Act/Served in the Continental Army | Patrick Henry | 3. He feared that the loss of one group of colonies would lead to the loss of others and the eventual decline of the empire/To prevent this, the Crown maintained an aggressive policy against colonial resistance/ He struggled to enforce royal authority throughout his reign/King of England during the Revolutionary Era | King George III | 4. Much of our Knowledge about the debates in the Continental Congress came from letters between this person and her husband/Her Writing reveals a commitment to voting rights for women and African American, and strong support for American Independence/She told her husband to take care of the women, who would not hold themselves bound by laws in which they had no voice (“Remember the ladies”) | Abigail Adams | 5. Lawyer and political/defended British soldiers after the Boston Massacre/a member of the Continental Congress (representing Massachusetts)/strong supporter of independence/Was on the committee that wrote the Declaration of Independence | John Adams | 6. African American Patriot/like Paul Revere he made an all night ride back from Boston to warn his community of the impending British invasion/served in the army and fought at the Battle of Saratoga/He was a judge, and a church leader/He is considered the first African American elected to public office in America | Wentworth Cheswell | 7. Created the Committee of Correspondence/Leader of the Sons of Liberty/Protested the Tea Act and the Boston Massacre | Samuel Adams | 8. Wife of a Massachusetts Patriot/anonymously wrote several propaganda pieces supporting the Patriot cause | Mercy Otis Warren | 9. Slave in Virginia/Marquis de Lafayette recruited him as a spy for the Continental Army/Posing as a double agent, forager and servant at British headquarters, he moved freely between the lines with vital information on British troop movements for Lafayette/contributed to the American victory at Yorktown | James Armistead | 10. A member of the committee which wrote the Declaration of Independence, but spent most of the period of the American Revolution in France/He represented the colonies as the American envoy starting in 1776 and remained until 1785/He negotiated the alliance with France and then the Treaty of Paris which ended the war | Benjamin Franklin | 11. Helped the Americans by shipping them supplies/He commanded Spanish troops against the British in both New Orleans, Louisiana, and in Florida | Bernardo de Galvez | 12. An African American man/became the first casualty of the American Revolution when he was shot and killed in what became known as the Boston Massacre | Crispus Attucks | 13. A Polish-born Jewish immigrant to America who played an important role in financing the Revolution/arrested by the British as a spy/used by the British as an interpreter with their German troops/helped British prisoners escape and encouraged German soldiers to desert the British army/became a broker to the French consul and paymaster to French troops in America/A Jewish banker who help finance the war/He gave loans to the new American Government | Haym Salomon | 14. Early and effective leader in the American Revolution/He was a delegate to the Continental Congress in Philadelphia and in 1776 he was a member of the committee which wrote the Declaration of Independence/chief writer of Declaration of Independence, which was approved by the delegates | Thomas Jefferson | 15. A French aristocrat who played a leading role in two revolutions in France and in the American Revolution/He respected the concepts of liberty and freedom and constitutional government/Between 1776 and 1779 he fought in the American Revolution, commanding forces as a major-general in the colonial army/important because France joined the Colonists against the British/Helped train the soldiers of the Continental Army | Marquis de Lafayette | 16. A resident of Virginia, he was a surveyor, a planter, a soldier in the French and Indian War, a delegate to the First and Second Continental Congresses, commander-in-chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolution | George Washington | 17. Founder of the U.S. Navy/Led Raids on British Vessels during the American Revolution | John Paul Jones | 18. Wrote the Pamphlet Common Sense to persuade people to join the Patriot cause | Thomas Paine |
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