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. Renaissance man(painter, scupltor, architect, inventor, etc.) | Leonardo Da Vinci | 2. Inventor of the printing press | Johnanes Gutenberg | 3. Outlined concept of Heliocentric Universe | Nicholas Copernicus | 4. Split newly discovered lands between Spain/Portugal | Treaty of Tordesillas | 5. Economic system to gain large supply of bullion | Mercantilism | 6. Failed attempt to gain more access to trade in China | Macartney Mission | 7. Ended fighting between Russia and Germany in 1917 | Treaty of Brest-Litovsk | 8. Slaughter of Euroepan civilians, especially Jews | Holocaust | 9. Muslim land-based empires based around strong militarys | Gunpowder Empires | 10. War between China and Britain over access to trade | Opium War | 11. Rapid industrialization, militarism, and modernism in Japan | Meiji Restoration | 12. Caused by hyperinflation, steep tariffs, overproduction, etc. | Great Depression | 13. Restored old borders and instituted Conservatism | Congress of Vienna | 14. Created to help cover the costs of voyages of exploration | Joint-Stock Companies | 15. Prime Minister of Prussia who united Germany | Otto von Bismarck | 16. Hands-off approach by government toward the economy | Laissez-Faire | 17. British-hired soldiers in India that led failed rebellion | Sepoys | 18. Leader of Boshevik Rebellion in Russia | Vladimir Lenin | 19. Protestant reformer who built a theocracy in Geneva | John Calvin | 20. Founder of the Scientific Method | Francis Bacon | 21. Absolute Monarch of France at the Start of the French Revolution | Louis XVI | 22. Leader of the Roundheads that made Britain a Commonwealth | Oliver Cromwell | 23. Mughal Empire ruler that brought Social Harmony to India | Akbar | 24. Leader of the Jacobins in the Reign of Terror | Maximilien Robespeirre | 25. Spanish conquistador that defeated the Inca | Francisco Pizzaro | 26. Japanese Shogun that instituted the "Hostage System" for Daimyo | Tokugawa Ieyasu |
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