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 Middle Ages, European society was organised into a system called... | Feudalism | 2. Complete the feudal hierarchy pyramid | Crown, Barons/bishops,Knights, Commoners. | 3. True or False: The church was a very large landowner and very important to people's practical and spiritual lives. | True | 4. In exchange for use of the land, what did peasants have to give the nobles? | a portion of what they produced.They were also required to build roads, clear forests. | 5. Peasants who were not allowed to leave the manor without permission and were at the bottom of the hierarchy were called what? | Serfs | 6. What was generally at the center of medieval towns? | Castle, palace or monastry | 7. How could serfs gain freedom? | running away and staying in town for a year and a day without being discovered. | 8. What controlled the price of goods, set standards of quality, and decided who would be admitted into learning new trades? | Guilds | 9. Once you have spent years of training and working within a trade, you could take a test to become what? | A Journeymen - you could then be admitted into the guilds. | 10. In 1337 'The hundred Year War' broke out between France and England. How did the Peasants respond? | Revolted over high taxes and rents they had to pay to finance the war. | 11. What was the result of the Black Death on the feudal system? | Labour Shortages & Manors went bankrupt. cont answer p. 26 | 12. How did people tell time in the Middle Ages? | By the sun, except for the church when they needed to know when to pray. | 13. When did people become more dependent on clocks? | when they started to own businesses and the town needed to keep people on worship schedule. | 14. With the rise of towns and wealth, people became more concerned with money and material possessions rather than land. True or False? | True | 15. Explain Sumptuary Laws | controlled consumption or how people spent their money. | 16. What is a tithe? | members of the church had to pay priests a portion of their crops or earnings. | 17. True or False: No new cathedrals were built during the middle ages. | False. More than 1500 were built in France alone. | 18. Men and women who were devoted to the church became...... | Monks and Nuns | 19. True or False: Monks and Nuns were not well educated. | False. Monasteries were great learning centers during the M.A | 20. When Universities popped up around religious schools, what did they start to teach? | Grammar, geometry, astronomy, and music. | 21. True or False: The Black Death made people believe in god even stronger that before? | False. They felt that God had abandoned them. | 22. Why did people become skeptical of the Church? | Church was wealthy, clergy became 'fancy' and rich- more interested in luxury than religion. | 23. What does Renaissance mean? | rebirth | 24. What were two outcomes of the crusades? | Contact with the Muslims and trade | 25. What goods did crusaders bring back to Europe | spices,fruit, silk, satin, muslin. | 26. How did increased trade lead to powerful city-states in Italy? | Geography, climate, Leadership and Social Organisation. | 27. Which ideas from classical times helped to form the Renaissance humanist worldview? | classical writings: ancient writings about politics, society and history, The importance of the individual. | 28. Outline the four principals that humanists believed in | power of reason, open curious mind, learning, multi-skilled. | 29. Describe civic humanism | believed that being a responsible citizen meant educating yourself about history and politics. | 30. How did art change during the Renaissance? | religious themes- to the individual and landscapes. | 31. Describe the scientific method | The process of making observations and drawing conclusions based on evidence. | 32. How did the printing press change during the Renaissance? | Printing press was developed and you could print thousands of books cheaply and quickly. |
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