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. During the 1500s, this movement pulled Europe out of the Dark Ages? | Renaissance | 2. Erasmus & Sir Thomas More were both these whom valued learning & knowledge? | humanists | 3. Which sect of Christianity protested the Church for its corruptions? | Protestantism | 4. Martin Luther believed this not the Pope had authority? | The Bible | 5. He emphasized righteousness & good work-ethic earns salvation? | John Calvin | 6. This was a bloody war between Catholics & Protestants? | 30 Years War | 7. He changed the focus of the 30 Years War from religious to political by giving more power to the King? | Richelieu | 8. After Henry VIII broke from the Church, he started this Protestant church in England? | Church of England | 9. During the 1500s, European sought to find new lands, at time in World History called? | Age of Discovery | 10. This economic system emerged in the Americas and emphasizes colonies only exist to benefit the mother country? | Mercantilism | 11. Due to exploration, European kings believed their power was divine & absolute otherwise known as...? | absolutism | 12. This movement questioned the relationship between ruler & subject and involved thinkers like Locke & Hobbes? | Enlightenment | 13. The Enlightenment inspired slaves & creoles to revolt where? | Latin America | 14. After 1776, enlightened ideas led to the "storming of the Bastille" which started the...? | French Revolution | 15. His empire stretched throughout Europe but was stopped by Russia? | Napoleon | 16. In 1815, this meeting was headed by Austria to balance power & restore monarch after Napoleon's campaign? | Congress of Vienna | 17. This occurred after 1815 and means pride for one's country? | nationalism | 18. Nationalism & Revolution later helped unify these two countries? | Italy & Germany | 19. He was the Prussian prime minister that unified Germany in 1870? | Otto Von Bismarck | 20. By the mid-late 1800s, this revolution led to urbanization and the rise of the factory system? | Industrial Revolution | 21. Because life was miserable, these groups helped end child labor & gain women rights? | Labor Unions | 22. The quest for raw materials & wealth pushed Europeans to colonize these two continents? | Africa & Asia | 23. By 1914, wealth, competition & failed alliances had led to this bloody conflict? | World War 2 | 24. WW1 ended with the signing of this failed treaty that held Germany responsible? | Treaty of Versailles | 25. Although the 1920s "roared" for the USA, it later ended with the collapse of the...? | Stock Market | 26. Economic, political & social decay influenced the rise of what type of totalitarian leaders in Europe? | Dictators | 27. Which economic system did Hitler support? | Socialism | 28. The rise of dictators and weak League of Nations eventually caused...? | World War 2 | 29. One event of WW2 was when Nazi Germany administered the planned destruction of Jews and other minority groups? | Holocaust | 30. After WW2, this world wide organization adopted resolution to prevent future genocides? | United Nations | 31. Because Stalin & the West could not agree on reconstruction, what metaphor divided Europe in NATO & Warsaw pacts? | Iron Curtain | 32. This Axis power was reconstructed by America by adopting democracy, weakening its military and inheriting western culture? | Japan |
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