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.What is the name of the event during which the invention of machines changed the way that manufactured goods were produced? | Industrial Revolution | 2. 2.In what part of the United States did the Industrial Revolution begin? | Northeast | 3. 3.Why did the Industrial Revolution begin in the northeastern United States? | because there were a lot of water sources and coal and iron deposits | 4. 4.What invention helped to make the cleaning of cotton faster and easier? | cotton gin | 5. 5.What idea did Eli Whitney develop which allowed for the mass production of identical machine made parts? | interchangeable parts | 6. 6.What invention helped to make the harvesting of wheat easier? | mechanical reaper | 7. 7.Who invented the steel plow? | John Deere | 8. 8.What improvement in transportation made it easier to travel upstream? | steamboat | 9. 9.The completion of what structure connected Buffalo, New York to the Hudson River? | Erie Canal | 10. 10.What is the movement of people from the farms to the cities called? | urbanization | 11. 11.Who were the typical workers in the factories? | young women and children | 12. 12.What individual memorized the way that the British built their spinning machines and then came to America and built a factory? | Samuel Slater | 13. 13.What individual developed the factory system and produced cloth from start to finish? | Francis Cabbot Lowell | 14. 14.What were some of the effects of increased urbanization in the cities as a result of the Industrial Revolution? | increased crime, overcrowding, and poverty | 15. 15.How did the War of 1812 contribute to the industrialization of the United States? | the war disrupted trading so Americans were forced to manufacture their own goods | 16. 16.What economic system helped the United States industrialize? | Free Enterprise | 17. 17.How did interchangeable parts impact industrialization? | it allowed for the mass production of goods (faster, easier, and cheaper) | 18. 18.What inventions helped to improve the area of agriculture? | steel plow, cotton gin, and mechanical reaper | 19. 19.What inventions helped to improve the area of communication? | telegraph and telephone | 20. 20.Who developed the telegraph? | Samuel F.B. Morse | 21. 21.Who invented the cotton gin and interchangeable parts? | Eli Whitney | 22. 22.What invention allowed for several threads to be spun at once thus allowing for many threads to be made faster and cheaper? | spinning jenny | 23. 23.What invention made steam power available for mechanical purposes? | steam engine | 24. 24.What was a negative effect of the cotton gin? | it led to an increase in slavery | 25. 25.What are textiles? | cloth |
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