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. These are your Vocabulary Words!!! Just answer with the definition | Thank You | 2. What is Surpluses? | More than you need. | 3. What is Hammurabi's Code? | The first set of written laws. | 4. What is Silt? | A mixture of tiny rock and other materials. | 5. What is Ebony? | A type of dark, heavy wood. | 6. What are Empires? | Many city-states under one ruler. | 7. What is Ivory? | A white material made from Elephant's tusk. | 8. What are Trade Networks? | A system of people in different lands who trade goods back and forth. | 9. What are Merchants? | Traders. | 10. What are Exports? | Items sent to other reigons for trade. | 11. What are Imports? | Goods bought in from other reigons. | 12. Who is Queen Shanakhdakheto? | She was belived to be the first woman to rule Kush. | 13. What is Dynasty? | A series of rulers in the same family. | 14. What are Nobles? | People from rich and powerful families. | 15. What are Sphinxes? | Imaginary creatures with the bodies of lions and the heads of other animals or humans. | 16. What is the Afterlife? | Life after death. | 17. What is a Delta? | A triangle-shaped area of land made of soil deposited by a river. | 18. What is the Rosetta Stone? | A huge, stone slab in scribed with hieroglyphics. | 19. What are Catarats? | Rapids. | 20. What are Obleisks? | Tall, four-sided pillars that are pointed at the top. | 21. What is a Pharaoh? | A title used by rulers in Egypt. | 22. What is the Middle Kingdom? | A period of order and stability which lasted to about 1750 B.C. | 23. What are Trade Routes? | Paths followed by Traders. | 24. What is the New Kingdom? | The period during which Egypt reached the hieght of it's power and glory. | 25. What is the Old Kingdom? | A period in Egyptian History that lasted for about 500 years from 2700 to 2200 B.C. | 26. What are Hieroglyphics? | Egyptian Writing System. | 27. What is an Elite? | People of wealth and power. | 28. What is Engineering? | The application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes. | 29. What is Papyrus? | A long, lasting paper-like material made from reeds. | 30. What are Mummies? | Specially treated bodies wrapped in cloth. | 31. What are Pyramids? | Huge, stone tumbs with four trianular shaped sides that meet in a point on top. |
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