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. 1.What is the name of the event during which the invention of machines changed the way that manufactured goods were produced? | Industrial Revolution | 2. 2.What reform movement is Elizabeth Cady Stanton associated with? | women’s suffrage | 3. 3.What was the purpose of the temperance movement? | to get people to stop drinking alcohol | 4. 4.Why did the Industrial Revolution begin in the northeastern United States? | because there were a lot of water sources and coal and iron deposits | 5. 5.What invention helped to make the cleaning of cotton faster and easier? | cotton gin | 6. 6.Who led the education reform movement and who believed that education was the great equalizer? | Horace Mann | 7. 7.What idea did Eli Whitney develop which allowed for the mass production of identical machine made parts? | interchangeable parts | 8. 8.What invention helped to make the harvesting of wheat easier? | mechanical reaper | 9. 9.What reformer worked to improve the prisons and to provide better treatment for the mentally ill? | Dorothea Dix | 10. 10.What improvement in transportation made it easier to travel upstream? | steamboat | 11. 11.The completion of what structure connected Buffalo, New York to the Hudson River? | Erie Canal | 12. 12.During what meeting did Elizabeth Cady Stanton announce that all men and women were created equal and demanded that women be granted suffrage? | Seneca Falls Convention | 13. 13.What is the movement of people from the farms to the cities called? | urbanization | 14. 14.Who were the typical workers in the factories? | young women and children | 15. 15.What do you call someone that wants to end slavery? | an abolitionist | 16. 16.What individual memorized the way that the British built their spinning machines and then came to America and built a factory? | Samuel Slater | 17. 17.What were some of the effects of increased urbanization in the cities as a result of the Industrial Revolution? | increased crime, overcrowding, and poverty | 18. 18.What was the name of the secret network of trails followed by runaway slaves to escape to the north? | Underground Railroad | 19. 19.How did the War of 1812 contribute to the industrialization of the United States? | the war disrupted trading so Americans were forced to manufacture their own goods | 20. 20.How did interchangeable parts impact industrialization? | it allowed for the mass production of goods (faster, easier, and cheaper) | 21. 21.Who was the author of the abolitionist newspaper The Liberator? | William Lloyd Garrison | 22. 22.Who invented the cotton gin and interchangeable parts? | Eli Whitney | 23. 23.Who was the famous conductor of the Underground Railroad who helped over 300 slaves escape to freedom? | Harriet Tubman | 24. 24.What invention made steam power available for mechanical purposes? | steam engine | 25. 25.What movement that started in New England revived interest in the Christian religion and led to many efforts for social reform? | Second Great Awakening |
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