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. There are 17 treasure hunt codes hidden around the school. Your job is to decode the questions and answer each one. Return your answers to the library to claim your prize. | answer | 2. English engineer and inventor of the process by which iron ore was efficiently converted to steel. | Bessemer | 3. Scottish born American industrialist who led the enormous expansion of the American steel Industry in the late 19th century | Carnegie | 4. American labor leader who led the Knights of Labor from 1879-1893 | Terrence Powderly | 5. President responsible for groundbreaking forestry legislation | Grover Cleveland | 6. What is social Darwinism? | 7. American civil engineer responsible for much of the railroad construction in the western and southwestern us during the nineteenth century | Grenville Dodge | 8. An american entrepreneur and engineer who invented the railroad and the air brake | George Westinghouse | 9. American financier and industrialist who organized the u.s. steel corporation | J.P. Morgan | 10. Where did the Union and Pacific Railroad and the Central Pacific Railroad meet and what did that accomplish? | Promontory Point Utah. The first transcontinental railroad | 11. What development gave birth to the meat packing industry? | the invention of the refrigerated freight car | 12. What invention allowed for population growth in cities? | elevator | 13. What three changes brought about the industrial revolution? | invention of machines to replace hand labor. Use of steam for power. Adoption of the factory system | 14. Name three inventions of the industrial revolution and their inventors. | various | 15. In 1880, who controlled 90% of the world's oil trade and through what company was it controlled? | John D. Rockefeller. The Standard Oil Trust | 16. Who drilled the first productive oil well in the United States and where was it drilled? | Edwin Drake. Titusville, Pennsylvania | 17. American inventor responsible for the phonograph, the carbon-button transmitter and the incandescent lamp? | Thomas Alva Edison | 18. What was the purpose of the government's formation of the Interstate Commerce Commission? | to oversee railroad operations across the nation |
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