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. Name the New England Colonies | Connecticut/Massachusetts/New Hampshire/Rhode Island | 2. Name the Middle Colonies | New York/Pennsylvania/Delaware/New Jersey | 3. Name the Southern Colonies | Georgia/South Carolina/North Carolina/Virginia/Maryland | 4. What was the primary cause of economic differences in Colonial America | Geography | 5. What crop saved the Colony of Virginia | Tobacco | 6. What was a common economic practice of the British during the Colonial Era (think mother country) | Mercantilism | 7. What contributed to the growth of representative government in the colonies | British Neglect of Colonial affairs | 8. African slaves were brought to the New World Via the | Middle Passage | 9. What did The Great Awakening encourage people to do | Exercise their own judgments | 10. What is the Mayflower Compact | formal document that said the colonial government would protect and preserve the whole (Elected by the People) | 11. What are the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut | 1st written constitution in the colonies | 12. What was the Virginia House of Burgees | 1st representative assembly in the colonies | 13. What group of people founded New York | Dutch | 14. What colony was a safe place for Catholics | Maryland | 15. What religious group started in Pennsylvania | Quakers | 16. How was the Colony of Georgia used | buffer between the other British colonies and Spanish Florida | 17. What is significant about the year 1607 | Jamestown was founded |
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