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. What year did Columbus arrive in America? | 1492 | 2. What was the first successful, British colony? | Jamestown | 3. The exchange of disease, livestock, crops, and culture during the colonial period was called? | The Columbian Exchange | 4. True or False: Puritan leader John Winthrop gave the speech City Upon A Hill | True | 5. What was the largest crop exported/imported through the South Atlantic system? | Sugar | 6. What were the three original natural rights originated by the philosopher John Locke? | Life, Liberty and Property | 7. What year was the Declaration of Independence written? | 1776 | 8. What was a turning point during the American Revolution? | Battle of Saratoga | 9. What was the name of the treaty that officially established the USA as an independent nation in 1783? | Treaty of Paris | 10. What is one aspect of Hamilton's financial plan? | BE FAT | 11. Name two major changes that Andrew Jackson made to the political status of the USA during his time in office? | New KNICKSS | 12. What president died one month into office because of pneumonia? | William Henry Harrison | 13. What was the only successful utopian society of the mid-1800s? | The Mormans | 14. True or False: The Domestic Slave Trade kept together more families allowing the spread of black culture. | False | 15. True or False: The Seneca Falls Convention was a major step towards Women's Equality. | True | 16. Who coined the phrase "Manifest Destiny"? | John L. O'Sullivan | 17. True or False: The annexation of Texas was controversial because of the growing fear over the expansion of slavery? | True |
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