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. How did the crop rotation system that developed in Britain during the agricultural revolution increase crop yields? | by increasing nutrients in the soil | 2. Which industry was the first area to undergo major industrialization? | textile | 3. By the late 1700s, where was the best place to find a water frame and a spinning mule? | a factory | 4. Who defended the free-market system of capitalism in the book, The Wealth of Nations? | Adam Smith | 5. According to utilitarianism, what should government policies promote? | the greatest good for the greatest number of people | 6. With which system is Karl Marx most closely associated? | communism | 7. In the early 19th Century, who carried out collective bargaining? | employers and employees | 8. What was a benefit of the railroad in Britain? | It offered cheap transportation for materials and goods. | 9. How did the philosophy of laissez-faire economics influence early industrialists? | with ideas of a free-market economy governed by natural laws, not government regulations | 10. What was the Industrial Revolution? | increased output of machine-made goods that began in England during the 18th-century | 11. What were the three factors of production required to drive the industrial revolution? | land, labor, capital | 12. What is the laissez-faire policy? | a policy that let owners of industry set working conditions without government interference | 13. What is the name for the voluntary associations of workers seeking labor reforms? | unions | 14. What was the impact of the steam engine on the production of British goods? | It launched the railway age that brought the transportation of people and materials to a new level. | 15. How did the Industrial Revolution affect cities? | It caused the population to grow faster than the housing supply | 16. Which factor played a major role in the industrialization of the United States? | railroads | 17. What impact did technological advances have on industry? | Production of goods was increased. | 18. Who was the American inventor and industrialist who made factory production more efficient by introducing the assembly line? | Henry Ford | 19. Why was the work of Louis Pasteur important in the history of medicine? | He found that bacteria caused diseases. | 20. How did Britain's economy affect the process of industrialization? | positively, by Britain's highly developed banking system, availability of loans, and climate of progress | 21. What was the main cause of the process of urbanization that occurred in 19th-century Britain and elsewhere in Western Europe? | industrialization | 22. What was a geographic advantage for England in the Industrial Revolution? | natural harbors | 23. What happened to the cost of consumer goods as a result of the Industrial Revolution? | prices dropped | 24. During the Industrial Revolution, England experienced the greatest population migration from? | agricultural settings to urban settings | 25. What was a central criticism of capitalism during the Industrial Revolution? | unfair distribution of wealth | 26. According to Marx and Engels, who should primarily control the factors of industrial production? | workers |
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