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. His most ambitious building project | thegreatwall | 2. He was highly influenced by this belief system | legalism | 3. He got rid of this system of government | feudalism | 4. He __________ money, weights, and measures | standardized | 5. These scholars opposed his changes | Confucian | 6. Confucian books were | burned | 7. A terra-cotta ________ “protected” his tomb | army | 8. His name | princezheng | 9. Each of his 36 districts had ___________ officials appointed | three | 10. He killed his enemies and their | families | 11. Rich and poor were punished __________ | equally | 12. He ___________ writing | simplified | 13. His enemies to the north were ____________ | nomads | 14. He used military might, ________, bribery, and alliances to conquer rival states | spies | 15. He used ___________ measures to maintain his power | harsh | 16. He created a ____________ system of laws | unified | 17. His detailed laws spelled out exact _________ | punishments | 18. Some punishments included forced labor, whippings, and __________ | beheadings | 19. Before him, people used to use shells, pearls, tin objects as _____________ | money | 20. New coins had ______ to make carrying them easier | holes | 21. All _________ cups had standard sizes | measuring | 22. 300,000 men worked on the Great ________ | Wall | 23. Tens of thousands of men ________ while working on the wall | died | 24. Dead workers were __________ in the wall | buried |
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