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.
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| 1. What was the Wilmot proviso and what did it propose? | 2. What is secession? | 3. What was the Compromise of 1815? And who supported it? | 4. Who was the most active conductor of the Underground Railroad? | 5. What was the first state to secede? | 6. What was Abraham Lincoln's main goal when the Civil War began? | 7. What area did the South have an advantage over the North in the Civil War? | 8. What amendment or act abolished slavery in the north? | 9. Why is the battle at Gettysburg considered a turning point in the Civil War? | 10. What is the main reason that Lincoln did not respond with force to the Confederate threat to attack Fort Sumter? | 11. What was the stated aim of the Emancipation Proclamation? | 12. What role did Clara Barton play in the Civil War? | 13. Who was the congressional leader of the radical Republicans? | 14. The 14th amendment was passed to provide a constitutional basis for what? | 15. During Reconstruction the system of sharecropping was least beneficial to which group of people and why? | 16. What amendments or acts made "all persons born or naturalized in the United States citizens"? | 17. Who was the first African-American US Senator? | 18. Who did the radical Republicans believe should be in charge of reconstruction policy? | 19. Pres. Andrew Johnson’s plan for reconstruction was aimed to punish what or who? | 20. The Compromise of 1877 signaling signaled an end to this: | 21. The state government that is run without federal intervention illustrates the idea of what? | 22. No one can be kept from voting because of race, color, or former enslavement according to this: | 23. What marked the end of the wars between the federal government and the Plains Indians? | 24. Why did the policy of treating the Great Plains as a huge reservation change? | 25. Who were the exodusters? | 26. What was central to the life and culture of the Plains Indians in the 1800s the horse, the buffalo, the extended family, or landownership? | 27. Most Native American responded to restrictions placed upon them by the US government by doing this | 28. What was the Dawes Act and who was it designed to benefit? | 29. What was the intent of the Homestead Act? | 30. Who invented the typewriter? | 31. Who invented the telephone? | 32. Who developed an efficient technique for transforming iron into steel? | 33. Who introduced an efficient means of retrieving oil beneath the earth’s surface? | 34. Who perfected the incandescent light bulb at his research laboratory in Mignano Park, New Jersey? | 35. Who developed an entire system for producing and distributing electrical power and organized power plants around the nation? | 36. What allowed manufacturers to build their factories away from rivers? | 37. What made it possible to construct skyscrapers in the 1800s? | 38. What was the Sherman Antitrust Act? | 39. The use of standardized time and time zones was introduced in order to benefit who or what? | 40. Vertical integration, a business strategy used by steel mogul Andrew Carnegie, is what? | 41. The main purpose of the company known as Credit Mobilier was | 42. What was the goal of the Interstate Commerce Act? | 43. Who organized the industrial workers of the world? | 44. The main immigration processing station in San Francisco was called | 45. The main goal of the Chinese Exclusion Act was to | 46. The main goal of the Americanization movement was to | 47. The row house was a new type of housing that conserved space by doing this | 48. Settlement houses were founded in late 1800s by who | 49. The illegal use of political influence for personal gain is called | 50. What is the Gentleman's Agreement? | 51. What is the main purpose of patronage? | 52. What is a graft? | 53. Who used the power of the presidency to clean up the New York customs house but was unable to get support from Congress for civil service reform? | 54. What prompted the assassination of President Garfield? | 55. What was the factor that prevented the greatest number of children from attending public high school? | 56. What was the Grandfather clause and how did southern states use this process? | 57. Cities in the late 19th century expanded with the development of what? | 58. Skyscrapers are made possible by the invention of this | 59. In the Southwest many Mexicans earned a living as this | 60. What were Jim Crow laws and what did they do? | 61. In the case of Plessy V Ferguson the Supreme Court ruled what? | 62. Which development in the late 1900s allowed cities to expand outward? | 63. Who expressed the belief that racism would end as blacks acquired practical work skills and proved their economic value to society? | 64. What were the main goals of the Progressive Movement? | 65. Who were the Muckrakers? | 66. A Bill that originates from the people rather than legislators is known as what? | 67. What did The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair expose? | 68. Who was the first president to use the presidency as a “bully pulpit”? | 69. What was the primary goal of the NAACP? | 70. What was the Seventeenth Amendment and who gained most from it? | 71. What was the primary goal of prohibitionists? | 72. What was Roosevelt’s position on trusts? | 73. What led to the defeat of Taft in 1912? | 74. What was the primary motivation for passage of the Sixteenth Amendment? | 75. What was the Sixteenth Amendment? | 76. What candidate was considered least pleasing to reformers in the election of 1912? |
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