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. You would most likely find a command economy in what type of government | communist | 2. Would you find entrepreneurs in a communist country | no | 3. What is the biggest difference between market and mixed economies | the government plays a role in a mixed economy | 4. What economy type does the United States have | mixed | 5. If a company spends money to educate its employees, it is investing in what | human capital | 6. If you hunt and gather to survive you most likely have what type of economy | traditional | 7. Goods a country buys from another country are _____ | imports | 8. If a country has a low literacy rate what does that mean | few can read or write | 9. What is population density | the amount of people who live in a certain area | 10. When you are making jewelry in a command economy, each person completed one task to make the finished product. This is known as | specialization | 11. A country’s products sold to another country | Export | 12. An economy in which the government owns most of the industries and makes most economic decisions | Command Economy | 13. An economy in which the consumers help determine what is to be produced by buying or not buying goods and services | Market Economy | 14. A goods and services exchange system based on at least two other types of systems | Mixed Economy | 15. Exchange of goods or services based on customs and tradition | Traditional Economy | 16. Taxes on goods coming into a country | Tariff | 17. Goods used in the production of commodities | Capital Resources/Goods | 18. Person who is willing to take a risk to create a business to sell a new technique, idea, or product | Entrepreneur | 19. An economic or physical limit to what can be traded with a country | Trade Barrier | 20. The value of all goods and services produced within a country | GDP | 21. To commit money or capital to gain a financial return | Investment | 22. Converting currency (money) from one country into the currency of another country to pay for goods in that country | Currency Exchange | 23. Method of categorizing parts of the economy based on systems of command through market | Continuum | 24. Money invested in a company’s goods (such as: machines, computers, buildings, land ect) | Capital Investment |
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