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 belief that the US was to expand to the Pacific Ocean? | Manifest Destiny | 2. What were the key most significant trails westward? | Santa Fe & Oregon trails | 3. Who was the founder of the Mormon Religion? | Joseph Smith | 4. Where did Brigham Young move the Mormons after their leader was killed? | Salt Lake City Utah (outside of the United States) | 5. Who was the most successful empresario? | Stephen F. Austin | 6. What does G.T.T. stand for? | Gone to Texas | 7. Who wins the battle at the Alamo? | Mexican Army (Santa Anna) | 8. Who wins the battle of San Jacinto? | Texan Army led by Sam Houston | 9. What was the name of the Treaty that end the Texas Revolution? | Treaty of Velasco | 10. Who was the initial President of Texas? | Sam Houston | 11. What year does the US finally annex Texas? | 1845 | 12. Who was the President of the US that provoked the Mexican American War? | James K. Polk | 13. What slogan did Polk use to go after the Oregon Territory? | Fifty Four Forty or Fight | 14. What general invaded Mexico through Veracruz? | Winfield Scott | 15. What general led the invasion of Santa Fe? | Zachary Taylor | 16. Who led the invasion of California? | John C. Fremont | 17. What treaty ended the Mexican-American war? | Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | 18. What gave us the final piece of our Southern Border? | Gadsden Purchase | 19. Who proposed the Compromise of 1850? | Henry Clay |
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