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. How long is a senate term? | 6 years | 2. What are the president's advisors called? | The Cabinet | 3. How is the President elected? | electoral votes | 4. What was our nation's first Constitution called? | The Articles of Confederation | 5. What issue did the 3/5ths compromise solve? | How to count slaves | 6. What is a Presidential rejection of a bill called? | veto | 7. How many states were needed to ratify the new Constitution? | 9 | 8. What is the minimum age of a member of the House of Representatives? | 25 | 9. Which amendments guarantee a person due process of the law? | 5 and 6 | 10. Who appoints Supreme Court Justices? | The President | 11. What is the power to examine Presidential and Legislative acts to see if they are Constitutional called? | judicial review | 12. Who breaks a tie in the Senate? | Vice President | 13. The large states at the Constitutional Convention favored this plan for representation. | Virginia Plan | 14. Where are the goals of the government found? | Preamble | 15. Where are your fundamental liberties as a US Citizen found? | Bill of Rights |
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