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.
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| 1. Question Abraham Lincoln spent his younger days in Indiana. 14 years of it from the time he was 7 until 21. He called Indiana “as unpoetical as any spot of the earth” but most have forgiven him for that quote. | Lincoln7and21 | 2. Question The American Civil War was fought between 1861-1865. Officially began on April 12, 1861 when Confederate forces bombarded the Union controlled Fort Sumter. | 1861-1865,April121861,FortSumter. | 3. Question Indiana was the first state in the American Northwest to mobilize for the Civil War. Nearly 210,000 Hoosiers–15% of the state’s population and much above its 22,500 quota fought for the Union in the Civil War. So many Hoosiers volunteered in the first call two days after Ft. Sumter but thousands were turned away. | 210000,15% | 4. Question More than half the state’s households contributed one or more members to fight in the war. Indiana, an agriculturally rich state containing the 5th-highest population in the Union and 6th highest of all states, was critical to the Northern success. | Half,5th,6th | 5. Question The 19th Indiana Volunteer Infantry Regiment served as part of the Iron Brigade. The 19th made critical contributions to some of the biggest battles: Second Bull Run, Antietam, and Gettysburg. This brigade sustained the heaviest losses of any in the war. | 19th,Iron,19th | 6. Question The 14th Indiana Infantry Regiment also called the Gallant 14th. This regiment during Gettysburg secured Cemetery Hill on the first of three days of fighting. Trained in Terre Haute and was active for three years. | 14th, Gallant14th,CemeteryHill,TerreHaute. | 7. Question 9th Indiana Volunteer Infantry. Trained in Indianapolis and became active April 1861. The first regiment from Indiana to see action. | 9th,first. | 8. Question The 28th Indiana Colored Infantry Regiment was formed in 1864 in Indianapolis. It is the only African American regiment formed in Indiana during the war and lost 212 men during conflict. Majority of these men died from a disease. | 28th,AfrianAmerican. | 9. Question Indiana’s volunteers were placed in some of the hardest conditions during the war. More than 35% of the Hoosiers who entered the Union Army became casualties. 24,416 which is about 7% of the total war casualties lost their lives in the conflict. (Approximately 650,000 total died in the war.) More than 50,000 were wounded. | 35%,24,416,650,000. | 10. Question New Albany, Indiana was one of the first national cemeteries for the war dead. Jeffersonville was the home to the 3rd largest Union military hospital. Indianapolis was the site of Camp Morton, one of the Union’s largest prisons for captured Confederate soldiers. Lafayette, Richmond, and Terre Haute also had prisons for POWs. | NewAlbany,Jeffersonville,Indianapolis,Morton | 11. Question April 1865, Robert E. Lee surrendered to end the war. President Lincoln was assassinated 6 days later. Lincoln’s funeral train passed through Indianapolis on April 30 and 100,000 people attended his ceremony at the State House. | RobertE.Lee,Indianapolis. | 12. Question Only one battle ever fought on Indiana soil. Took place in 1863. Called Morgan’s Raid. John Morgan was a Confederate Cavalry officer and fought the Battle of Corydon. (Confederate victory) The cavalry raid went into Indiana and Ohio and was the farthest north any Confederate soldiers penetrated during the war. | one,1863,MorgansRaid,JohnMorgan,BattleofCorydon,North. | 13. Question Colonel Eli Lilly after the war founded the Eli Lilly and Company which grew into the state’s largest corporation. Indianapolis was also the wartime home of Dr. Richard Gatling. He invented the Gatling gun. Not officially approved by the government until after the war. | EliLilly, EliLilly,largest,Gatling,Gatling. | 14. Construction began in 1888 and finished in 1901. | 1888,1901 | 15. War closed the Mississippi River to traffic for nearly 4 years, forcing Hoosiers to find other means to export its produce. This led to a population shift to the north where the state came to rely more on the Great Lakes and railroads instead of the Ohio River. | Devolopment,Mississippi,GreatLakes,Railroads. |
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