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. Who were the Bedouins? | Arab Nomads | 2. What is polytheism? | worshipping more than one god. | 3. Who was the Empress of the Tang Dynasty during the campaign in Korea? | Wu Zhao | 4. What made it easier to print pages because they no longer had to carve a whole page of letters in order to print? | movable type | 5. The Western Roman Empire crumbled in the fifth century when it was overrun by what tribes? | Germanic | 6. In 527 a high ranking nobleman succeeded to the throne of the Byzantine Empire. Who was he? | Justinian | 7. Otto I called his German-Italian empire what? | The Holy Roman Empire | 8. Pope Urban II issued a call for a holy war also called what? | The Crusades | 9. The Sahara keeps moving south a little more each year as it is slowly taking over the . | Sahel | 10. is a belief system where spirits play an important role in regulating daily life. | Animism | 11. By 3400 BC early farmers were growing what in the Americas? | maize | 12. The civilization that would take the place of the Olmec would be the . | Zapotec | 13. Overseas trade, spurred by the ______________, led to the growth of large city-states in northern Italy. | Crusades | 14. The study of classical texts led to ______________, an intellectual movement that focused on human potential and achievements. | humanism | 15. In the late 1300s and early 1400s, _________________________ of England and Jan Hus of Bohemia had advocated Church reform. | John Wycliffe | 16. What was the Edict of Worms and what was the result? | various | 17. the Great ruled Palenque in the 600s. | Pacal | 18. The Maya believed that was a burden carried on the back of a god. | time | 19. Led by ______________________ of Ghazni, the Turkish armies devastated Indian cities and temples in 17 brutal campaigns. | Sultan Mahmud | 20. Akbar’s son called himself _______________ , or “Grasper of the World.” | Jahangir | 21. _____________________, the campaign to drive Muslims from Spain, had been completed only 64 years before the Reformation Movement. | The Reconquista | 22. What were some of the consequences of Spain's newfound wealth from the Americas? | various | 23. The Greek astronomer _________________ expanded the geocentric theory in the second century AD. In addition, Christianity taught that God had deliberately placed the earth at the center of the universe. | Ptolemy | 24. An Italian scientist named _______________built on the new theories about astronomy. As a young man, he learned that a Dutch lens maker had built an instrument that could enlarge far-off objects. He built his own telescope and used it to study the heavens in 1609. | Galileo | 25. During the 1770s and 1780s, France’s government sank deeply into debt. Part of the problem was the extravagant spending of Louis XVI and his queen, _____________________. | Marie Antoinette | 26. Ever since, July 14—________________—has been a French national holiday, similar to the Fourth of July in the United States. | Bastille Day | 27. The French colony called _________________ was the first Latin American territory to free itself from European rule. | Saint Domingue | 28. Who were the two major liberators in South America? | Simon Bolivar and Jose de San Martin | 29. _____________ saw that the usual way of sowing seed by scattering it across the ground was wasteful. In turn he invented the seed drill. | Jethro Tull | 30. Around 1764, a textile worker named _________________ invented a spinning wheel he named after his daughter. His spinning jenny allowed one spinner to work eight threads at a time. | James Hargreaves |
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