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. During the Cold War ______________ became a destination port area for tourism in South Carolina. | Charleston | 2. What kind of changes were made in education during the Cold War? | answers will vary | 3. The Cold War was a war fought for ________ | global influence | 4. NAACP used the ___________ system during the Civil Rights Movement and brought cases to the courts that challenged_______________. | court, segregation | 5. Only _____________ can vote in the primaries in South Carolina during the 1950s. | whites | 6. What court case sought to allow anyone who qualified to vote in primary elections? | Elmore vs. Rice | 7. What court case from South Carolina was combined with Brown vs. Board of Education after it had originally lost? | Briggs vs. Elliott | 8. What was the ultimate goal of Brown vs. Board of Education? | desegregate schools | 9. How many buses did black students have in Clarendon County? | zero | 10. What was the final vote in the Supreme Court on the case Brown vs. Board of Education and what was the outcome? | 9-0, ended segregation | 11. This South Carolina senator filibustered for 24 hours to keep the vote from being passed to desegregate schools. | Strom Thurmond | 12. What act helped eliminate disenfranchisement among blacks in 1964 and 1965? | Voting Rights | 13. He was the first black federal judge in South Carolina. | Matthew Perry | 14. She was a teacher and considered the grandmother of the American Civil Rights Movement. | Septima Clark | 15. What were two industries that began in South Carolina during the Cold War? Be specific. | tourism, tobacco | 16. During the 1970s people began moving to ____________. | Cities | 17. This began as a peaceful protest but ended with the police killing 3 and wounding 28 at a local bowling alley in South Carolina. | Orangeburg Massacre | 18. What is the number one industry in South Carolina today? | tourism | 19. What crop was the main cash crop during the 1950s and how did it become that? | tobacco, because cotton was overproduced | 20. This was the name of the political party that split from the Democrats and started by Strom Thurmond. | Dixiecrats | 21. What did the Friendship Nine do to get arrested? | sit in | 22. What was the purpose of getting arrested instead of posting bail? | flood the court systems |
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