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. Thomas L Jennings | dry scouring | 2. Madame C J Walker | African American hair care products | 3. George Carruthers | ultraviolet camera | 4. Alexander Miles | automatic doors for an elevator | 5. George Washington Carver | products using peanuts, sweet potatoes, and soybeans | 6. Frederick McKinley Jones | an automatic refrigeration system | 7. Jan Matzeliger | lasting machine | 8. Norbert Rillieux | effective vacuum sugar evaporater | 9. George Edward Alcorn | x-ray | 10. Lewis Latimer | electric lighting | 11. Granville Woods | incubator | 12. Patricia Bath | laserphaco probe | 13. Garrett Morgan | traffic lights and a gas mask | 14. Otis Boykin | cardiac pace maker | 15. Marie Van Brittle Brown | home security system | 16. Benjamin Banneker | clock | 17. Sarah Boone | ironing board | 18. Elijah McCoy | Invented an automatic lubricator for oiling steam engines in 1872. | 19. Garrett Augustus Morgan | Invented (among many other things) a 3-way automatic stop sign. | 20. Judy W. Reed | The first African American woman to receive a patent in 1884 for a hand-operated machine used to knead and roll dough. | 21. Fredrick Jones | Held over 60 patents, most being for the refrigerators. His portable air conditioner was used in World War 2 to preserve medicine and blood serum. | 22. Granville Woods | Invented numerous devices relating to the railroad including a system of overhead electric conducting lines, air brakes, and a telegraph system that allowed communication between moving trains. | 23. Thomas J. Martin | Patterned a fire extinguisher in 1872. | 24. Jan Ernst Matzeliger | Invented the shoe lasting machine , which connected the upper part of the shoe to the sole, a painstaking process that was usually done by hand. This invention revolutionized the shoe making industry. | 25. Joseph Winters | Invented a fire escape ladder in 1878. | 26. Sarah E. Goode | Invented a bed that folded up into a cabinet in 1885. Contrary to popular belief, she was not the first African-American woman to receive a patent, but the second. | 27. Thomas L. Jennings | The first African-American to receive a patent in 1821. It was a dry-cleaning process in 1821. He used the money earned from the patent to purchase relatives out of slavery and support abolitionist causes |
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