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. Medieval | Latin word for Middle Ages | 2. Middle Ages | Time period between 500 and 1500 AD after the fall of the Roman Empire. | 3. Charlemagne | Became the emperor of the former Roman Empire in Western Europe. Spread Christianity as he conquered other lands. Very tall. | 4. King John of England | King of England in 1199 and governed with much force. He was the reason the Magna Carta was written. | 5. Magna Carta the "Great Charter" | Set of laws that limited the power of the king. | 6. Feudalism | the system of obligations that governed the realtionship between lords and vassals in the Middle Ages. | 7. Knight | Warriors on horseback who had a code of chivalry to live by. | 8. Vassal | A knight who owned a piece of land. | 9. Chivalry | the code of honor a knight lived by. | 10. Manor | A large estate owned by a knight or lord. It was a way of organizing feudal lands. | 11. Fief | a piece of land in medieval Europe. | 12. Viking | Fierce invaders from the Northern (Denmark, Sweden, Finland) | 13. Pope Benedict | Came up with the rules most monasteries followed. | 14. Monks | religious men who lived apart from society in isolated communities. | 15. Monasteries | communities where the monks lived. | 16. Roman Catholic Church | was the center of life in the Middle Ages. | 17. Nuns | lived in convents like a monk but female. |
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