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 many colonies did britain have in America in 1776 | 13 | 2. What is Constitutional Monarchy | King shared power with parliament | 3. What is the divine right of Kings | Kings picked by God to rule | 4. What were the Navigation Acts | America only allowed sell tobacco to Britain and buy sugar from west indies | 5. What was the Enlightenment | Questioning of traditional ideals | 6. What act made Americans pay cost of keeping British soldiers | Quartering act | 7. What act put a tax on all legal documents | Stamp Act | 8. Explain "No taxation without representation" | no tax paid until they have real say in parliament | 9. What was the event called when British soldiers fired on americans | Boston Massacre | 10. What was Boston Tea Party | Sons of liberty dumped tea into boston harbour | 11. Where were the first shots fired in American revolution | Lexington and concord | 12. Who became leader of Continental army at 2nd Continental Congress | Washington | 13. Why did America win revolution | Guerilla tactics, French help. | 14. who were the "lobsterbacks" | british army | 15. Who invented Seed drill | Jethro Tull | 16. What did Cyrus Mccormick invent | Mechanical reaper. | 17. What was Enclosure | fencing off of fields | 18. Explain Selective breeding | choosing best animals to breed for better wool,milk,meat. | 19. Who invented Flying shuttle | John Kay | 20. Who invented the Spinning Jenny | James Hargreaves | 21. What did Richard Arkwright invent | Water frame | 22. What did Samuel Crompton invent | Mule | 23. Who invented the Davy lamp | Humphrey Davy | 24. Who invented puddling and rolling | Henry Cort | 25. What did James Watt invent | Rotary steam engine. | 26. What are Turnpike trusts | organisations set up to improve roads | 27. What two problems faced people in industrial towns | Overcrowding and disease | 28. Name two jobs in textile factories | Piercers and scavengers | 29. Name three jobs in mines | Hewers, Hurriers, trappers | 30. What did the Luddites do | Break up machines | 31. What are cottiers | Labourers | 32. Explain black '47 | worst year of famine 1847 |
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