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. a policy in which a strong nation seeks to dominate other countries politically, economically, or socially | imperialism | 2. the application of Charles Darwin’s ideas about evolution and “survival of the fittest” to human societies-particularly as justification for imperialist expansion | Social Darwinism | 3. a meeting in 1884-85 at which representatives of European nations agreed upon rules for the European colonization of Africa | Berlin Conference | 4. Dutch colonist in South Africa | Boer | 5. Indian soldiers under British control | Sepoy | 6. A feeling of pride in you nation or ethnic (culture) and extreme loyalty to that group. | Nationalism | 7. Part of India under British control | Raj | 8. The idea that a nation will use its armed forces to threaten and acquire power over other nations or people; a policy of aggressive military preparedness | Militarism | 9. to incorporate (territory) into an existing political unit such as a country, state, county, or city | annex | 10. An agreement of friendship to protect one another. | alliance | 11. the deliberate & systematic destruction of a racial/political/cultural group | genocide | 12. Armed gunmen in Sudan responsible for killing and displacing hundreds of thousands of citizens in Darfur | janjaweed | 13. Western region of Sudan | Darfur | 14. refusing to obey laws you think are unjust; usually using some tactic of passive resistance | Civil Disobedience | 15. March organized by Gandhi to march 240 miles to the coast to collect sea water, let it evaporate, and collect the salt to avoid paying taxes to the British on salt in 1930 | Salt March | 16. The British army opened fire and killed over 400 Indians and wounding another 1200 who were protesting the Rowlatt Acts in the Spring of 1919 | Amristar massacre |
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