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. The three motivating factors of English colonization of North America were mercantilism, ___________, and religious freedom. | Economic gain for wealthy | 2. The ________________ was the first form of self government using elected legislators in the colonies... allowing white male, land owners the power to vote. | Virginia House of Burgesses | 3. Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson founded Rhode Island because of their disagreement with strict Puritan beliefs in the Massachusetts Bay Colony… such as ______________ and state and Indian relations... | separation of church | 4. William Penn founds and settles the Middle colony of Pennsylvania as a religious safe haven for ______________.. | Quakers | 5. Samuel De Champlain founded the French colony of Quebec to make money from the ________________… French territory would later extend into the Ohio River Valley... | Fur trade | 6. The ____________________ prevented colonist from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains after the French & Indian War. This land was now reserved for Native Americans. Most colonists did not obey law due to the inability of England to enforce it.. | Proclamation Act | 7. The issue of representation in Congress during the Constitutional Convention between small and large states was settled by the _____________… which led to the creation of a Bi-cameral legislature.... | Great Compromise | 8. The Bill of Rights is the 1st 10 Amendments in the US Constitution. These amendments __________ in the US. Amendment 10 protects the rights of States... | protect the rights of citizens | 9. George Washington’s use of troops to end the Whiskey Rebellion showed _________... | that the federal government was strong engough to pass and enforce its laws | 10. Eli Whitney’s development of the use of _________ lead to the early industrial growth in the United States... | interchangeable parts | 11. n the Mid- 19 century women attempted to gain suffrage (voting rights). This movement gained national attention at the 1848 in NYC, led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton... | Seneca Falls Convention | 12. Under Jackson’s presidency his policies played into the hands of the people… ________ proved this idea! It practiced the theory of appointing people to government offices as a reward for party loyalty….”to the victors go the spoils” | The Spoils System | 13. hich of the follow Abolitionist is not paired with their correct event or status....William Lloyd Garrison: African-American from the north that fought for the end of slavery;The Grimke Sister: women from South Carolina who moved north to join the fight to end slavery;John Brown: led a raid on Harper’s Farry in order to arm slaves and create a huge slave uprising;Nat Turner: lead a slave revolt that lead to an increase of keeping slaves in submissive roles; plantation owners are more fearful of slave uprising | William Lloyd Garrison: African-American from the north that fought for the end of slavery | 14. Missouri Compromise: AKA = Compromise of 1820… allowed Missouri to enter as a slave, Maine as a free, and forbid slaves above the 36’30’. The main purpose of this compromise was to _____... | maintain sectional balance so that no one state (free or slave) would have an advantage in Congress. | 15. The Compromise of 1850 and the Kansas-Nebraska act of 1854 increased the dispute _______________________________... | over slavery’s expansion into the newly acquired western territories | 16. The __________ was an important battle for the Union troops in the west. By capturing this city they were able to control the Mississippi river and cut the Confederacy in half... | Battle of Vicksburg | 17. The Compromise of 1850 did all of the following: 1. California was admitted as a free state, 2. Slavery in the New Mexico Territory would be determined by “______________________”, 3. the creation of a strong fugitive slave law, and 4. slave trade was outlawed in the District of Columbia (but not slavery) | popular sovereignty | 18. In March of 1865, the Civil War nearing an end, President Lincoln gave his ___________. In this address he appealed to the people: forget your bitterness, avoid the spirit of vengeance, and reunite as one... | 2nd Inaugural Address |
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