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. 1. This revival in Christianity sparked many colonists to question the authority of the king. | Great Awakening | 2. 2. A war that led the colonists being unhappy with Great Britain. | French and Indian War | 3. 3. Law requiring colonists to pay taxes on all printed material including newspapers and playing cards. | Stamp Act | 4. 4. Surprise attack by a hidden person or group. | ambush | 5. 5. Cut off an area to prevent supplies and people from entering or leaving. | blockade | 6. 6. To refuse to buy items from a business or country. | boycott | 7. 7. A complaint against an unfair or unjust act. | grievance | 8. 8. Colonists who were loyal to Great Britain. | Loyalist/Tory | 9. 9. Colonists who fought for independence against Great Britain. | Patriot | 10. 10. A military force made up of the civilian population in place of a regular military. | militia | 11. 11. A formal request for those in power with signatures. | petition | 12. 12. Ideas or information designed to influence opinion and spread. | propaganda | 13. 13. To give official approval. | ratify | 14. 14. The action or process of resisting authority or convention. | rebellion | 15. 15. Forcible overthrow of a government or social order in favor of a new system. | revolution | 16. 16. Tax placed against molasses and refined sugar but allowed officers to seize goods suspected of being smuggled. | Sugar Act | 17. 17. Tax placed upon imported goods. | Townshend Act | 18. 18. Scuffle between British soldiers and colonists leading to 5 dead men. | Boston Massacre | 19. 19. Party that got out of control when colonists threw tea into the Boston Harbor. | Boston Tea Party | 20. 20. Colonists were forced to house and resupply British soldiers. | Quartering Act | 21. 21. Tax placed upon all tea except for tea from the British East India Company. | Tea Act | 22. 22. Law which prevented the colonists from moving west of the Appalachian Mountains after the French and Indian War? | Proclamation of 1763 | 23. 23. I believed in a representative government to serve the people. | Locke | 24. 24. I believed in the division of state and separation of powers. | Montesquieu | 25. 25. I believed in a direct democracy where everyone contributes to an overall "general will." | Rousseau | 26. 26. I believed in religious freedom and freedom from government sponsored religion. | Voltaire | 27. 27. I said,"Give me liberty or give me death!" | Patrick Henry | 28. 28. I wrote "Common Sense" influencing many colonists to join the Revolution. | Thomas Paine | 29. 29. Event in which philosophers questioned the validity of government and created the basis for the Declaration of Independence. | Enlightenment |
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