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.
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| 1. Local spoken language | vernacular | 2. State that was the cultural center of Italy2 | Florence2 | 3. Intellectual movement based on the study of the literature of ancient Greece and Rome3 | humanism3 | 4. State in southern Italy ruled by a hereditary monarch4 | Naples4 | 5. German printer who developed movable type5 | Johannes Gutenburg5 | 6. Painting done on fresh wet plaster with water-based paints6 | frescos | 7. Author of an influential treatise on political power7 | Niccolo Machiavelli7 | 8. A member of the middle class8 | burgher8 | 9. A form of government in which the leader is not a monarch and certain citizens have the right to vote9 | republic9 | 10. Example of how a prince should act according to Machiavelli10 | Lion and Fox10 | 11. States were able to function independently because11 | Italy did not have a strong central government11 | 12. Leonardo da Vinci was a good example of Renaissance Italy's social ideal because he12 | was a painter, sculptor, architect, inventor, and mathematician12 | 13. In the Prince, Machiavelli argues that13 | the ends justify the means13 | 14. The main way in which the works of Northern European Renaissance artists differed fro those of Italian artists was in14 | scale14 | 15. The development of printing using movable type enabled people to15 | become better informed15 | 16. Petrarch is considered the father of Italian Renaissance humanism because he16 | helped spread classical ideals by reviving forgotten Latin manuscripts16 | 17. The main goal of a humanistic education was to17 | teach people how to lead good lives17 | 18. The war between France and Spain for control of Italy reached a turning point when18 | Sapnish mercenaries sacked Rome in 152718 | 19. Venice became an important state because it19 | served as a commercial link between Asia and Western Europe19 | 20. In Renaissance Italy, most people lived in20 | large urban communities20 |
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