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. What was the Missouri Compromise of 1820? | Missouri Enters as a slave state, Maine as a Free State, Line dividing free territory & slave territory @ 36,30'N | 2. What was the Wilmot Proviso?2 | A plan by David Wilmot to make all land gained from Mexico free.2 | 3. What were the 4 parts of the Compromise of 1850?3 | California would be free,divide rest of territory into 2 parts (New Mexico & Utah), Ban Slave Trade in Washington DC, & Create new fugitive slave law3 | 4. Who created the Compromise of 1850?4 | Henry Clay4 | 5. What is an abolitionist?5 | someone who wants to abolish slavery5 | 6. What was Nat Turner's Rebellion?6 | 80 followers, attacked plantations, killed 60 whites and then captured by state and federal troops6 | 7. What was the aftermath of Nat Turner's Rebellion?7 | Whites kill over 200 blacks and then begin to place stricter rules on slaves including no longer educating them.7 | 8. Who was the abolitionist that was deemed an extremist for his desire for immediate emancipation?8 | William Lloyd Garrison8 | 9. Who created the publication known as "The North Star"?9 | Frederick Douglas9 | 10. What was the significance of "Uncle Tom's Cabin?10 | It changed slavery from political issue to a moral issue. Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe.10 | 11. What Southern Sisters were key members of the abolitionist movement?11 | Grimke Sisters11 | 12. What was the underground Railroad?12 | A secret network of people assisting runaway slaves12 | 13. Who was the most famous conductor of the Underground RR?13 | Harriet Tubman13 | 14. What political party formed as a result of being anti-immigrant?14 | Know Nothing Party14 | 15. What political Party formed in support of keeping the newly aquired land free of slaves?15 | Free-Soil Party15 | 16. What different groups made up the Republican Party?16 | Made up of Anti-Slavery Democrats, Whigs, & Free Soilers.16 | 17. What is another name for the Know Nothing Party?17 | American Party17 | 18. How many trips to the South did Harriet Tubman make and how many slaves did she help?18 | She made 19 trips saving 300 slaves.18 | 19. Who created the American Anti-Slavery Society in 1832?19 | William Lloyd Garrison.19 | 20. How was Texas admitted to the United States?20 | as a slave state.20 |
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