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. This is money put up by the accused to assure they will show up for trial. | Bail | 2. This amendment bans excessive bail. | 8th Amendment | 3. This means no contest. The accused does not plead guilty but does not oppose charges. | Nolo contende | 4. This trial step comes after a nolo contende in a trial. | Sentencing | 5. This states that evidence obtained in violation to the rights of the accused is not admissable in court. | Exclusionary Rule | 6. This grants the police the right to search property for specific things. | Search Warrant | 7. This is needed to obtain a search warrant | Sufficient probable cause and specific details of the search. | 8. This is anything that can be clearly seen without having to move objects nor position oneself to be able to see it and is subject to seizure by the police. | Plain View | 9. This is the number of people are on the grand jury. | 16-23 | 10. This means courts shouldn’t encourage law breaking by the police. | Judicial Integrity | 11. This is the percent of cases that never go to trial. | More than 90%. | 12. This is a request to have certain evidence disallowed. | Motion to Suppress | 13. This kind of case has a preliminary hearing. | Felony Case. | 14. This allows the defendant to plead guilty to a lesser crime in exchange for a guilty plea. | Plea Bargaining | 15. This is a formal process of making a police record of the arrest. | Booking | 16. The following are examples of what: motion for discovery of evidence, motion for a continuance, motion of change of venue, and motion to suppress evidence. | Pretrial Motions | 17. In this process, an official police record is made and the accused provides personal information, is fingerprinted, and photographed. | Booking | 18. A defendant can have this present at a preliminary hearing | An attorney who is able to cross-examine. | 19. If a case is dismissed at a preliminary what is the next step for a prosecutor? | The prosecutor can take the case to the Grand Jury. | 20. During this, misdemeanors the defendant is informed of charges and enters a plea; for felonies the defendant is informed of charges and rights. | Initial Appearance |
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