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. The Industrial Revolution began in what country? | England | 2. Why did Industrialization begin in England? | England had natural Recourses like coal and iron ore. England also has an established and stable government. | 3. Author of the Wealth of Nations? | Adam Smith | 4. Authors of the Communist Manifesto? | Karl Marx | 5. What does the term laissez-faire mean? | Government stays out of business. | 6. Karl Marx described a battle between what two opposing forces? | Proletariat V Bourgeoisie | 7. Why did women and children work in the early factories? | Worked for less money than men | 8. What did Britain and France want to control in Egypt? | To control the Suez canal | 9. As economically developing nations become more industrialized, what effect does it have on women? | Allowed them to get jobs, go to school, eventually vote | 10. The Industrial Revolution began with the manufacturing of what product? | textiles | 11. What are three forms of imperialism?(hint: C,P,S) | Colonialism, Protectorate, Sphere of Influence | 12. What does the term urbanization mean? | The growth of cities | 13. Describe the term “White Man’s Burden”. | It was the duty of the European whites male to civilize and tame the savages of Africa, Asia and South America | 14. What was the purpose in building the Suez Canal? | Faster transportation from the Indian ocean to Europe | 15. What must a nation have to industrialize? | Land, Labor, Capital, Stable Government | 16. What does the term suffrage mean? | the right to vote | 17. Who fought for suffrage during the Industrial Revolution? | woman | 18. What did James Watt invent? | Steam engine | 19. Why was the invention of the steam engine important? | It was a power source that did not have to be near water | 20. Throughout the 1800’s, an increased need for both raw materials and new markets for manufactured goods led various European nations to pursue policies of | Imperialism. | 21. What was the time period that saw western European countries go from making goods by hand to making goods by machines called? | Industrial Revolution | 22. What was a cottage industry? | Making good from home | 23. What was a factory system? | All factors of production in one building/assembly line work | 24. What was the political and economic theory where everyone in society is absolutely equal, there is not private property, and all people make the same wage regardless of their job. | Communism |
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