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. Where was the segregation worst? | In the southern states. | 2. Which two different approaches to gaining civil rights for black people? | Non-violent and violent approach. | 3. When did the “separate but equal” doctrine receive its death? | 1954. | 4. Who was Rosa Parks? | The leader of the civil rights. | 5. What does Emancipation mean in Danish? | Frigørelse eller befrielse. | 6. What does NAACP stand for? | (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) | 7. What does CORE stand for? | (Congress of Racial Equality) | 8. What does SCLC stand for? | (Southern Christian Leadership Conference) | 9. What does SNCC stand for? | (Student Nonviolent Coordination Committee) | 10. From where did Martin Luther King Jr. get his non-violent idea from? | Gandhi | 11. Who refused to give up her/his seat on a bus to a white person? | Rosa Parks. | 12. What action led to 52 similar sit-ins all over the South? | A group of African American students. | 13. When did the non-violent movement reach its peak? | In 1963 in the Summer. | 14. Who gave his legendary speech “I Have a Dream”? | Martin Luther King Jr. | 15. Who was becoming increasingly discontented with the slow pace of progress? | Many activists. | 16. What did the Nationalists believe on? | They believed that the White culture was dominant. | 17. What did the Pluralists believe on? | They believed on integration and that it was possible for all races to live together peacefully. | 18. Who formed the Black Panther Party? | Bobby Seale and Huey P: Newton. | 19. What’s “The Ten Point Plan”? | It the list of the Black Panther Party demands. | 20. Who thought that the BPP was a great threat to security? | FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation). |
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