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. The term used for those who supported resistance to the policies of King George and his ministers and, later, independence from England | Patriots | 2. Who warned the folks of Lexington and Concord that the British were coming? | Paul Revere | 3. What nation did the Americans and allies fight against in the American Revolutionary War? | France | 4. Who wrote the Declaration of Independence? | Thomas Jefferson | 5. Which side had trained soldiers and plenty of supplies (British or Americans)? | British | 6. Who won the battle of Lexington? | British | 7. Who won the battle of Concord? | Americans | 8. Who won the battle of Saratoga? | Americans | 9. Who won the battle of Yorktown? | Americans | 10. Who won the battle of Bunker Hill? | British | 11. Fought for a cause and had homefield advantage!(British or Americans)- | Americans | 12. Knew the area and practiced guerrilla warfare!(British or Americans)- | Americans | 13. Everything had to be shipped across the Atlantic Ocean !(British or Americans)- | British | 14. What was the final battle of the Revolutionary War? | Yorktown | 15. Leader of the British troops | Cornwallis | 16. Militia ready to fight at a moment’s notice | minutemen | 17. Leader of the Continental Army | George Washington | 18. Turning point- French helped us after this battle | Saratoga | 19. Shot Heard 'round the World (first battles of the Revolution) | Lexington and Concord | 20. What word means to shut off a port to keep people or supplies from moving in or out? | blockade | 21. Who was the king of England during the American Revolution? | King George III | 22. Who was the first man killed in the American Revolution? | Crispus Attucks | 23. American colonists who wanted to remain part of the Kingdom of Great Britain (and the British monarchy) before and after the American Revolution were known as? | Loyalists | 24. Where did Washington and his troops spend the winter training?(nearly 2500 soldiers died in this encampment from starvation, disease, etc.)? | Valley Forge | 25. Which treaty formally ended the American Revolution? | Treaty of Paris, 1783 |
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