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. Who were the three "gunpowder" empires? | Ottoman Turks, Safavids and Mughal | 2. Name the three defeats suffered by the Ottoman Turks in Europe. | Vienna, Lepanto, Hungary | 3. What did all three empires have in common? | Islamic religion | 4. What was the ruler of the Ottoman Turks called? | Sultan | 5. What was the king of the Safavids called? | Shah | 6. What year did the Ottoman Turks capture Constantinople? | 1453 | 7. What branch of Islam were the Safavids? | Shia | 8. The arrival of which country hastened the decline of the Mogul Empire? | the British | 9. Who won the Battle of Chaldiran? | Ottoman Turks | 10. What was the new Muslim name for the city of Constantinople? | Istanbul | 11. Who was the leader of the Safavids from 1588 to 1629? | Shah Abbas | 12. Who brought Mogul rule to most of India? | Akbar | 13. What is the "monument to love"? | The Taj Mahal | 14. Why was Selim I known as Selim the Great? | He killed all possible claimants to the throne except one, and for his harsh treatment of his enemies. | 15. What helped make the Ottoman Empire one of the wealthiest of its time? | The conquest of Egypt | 16. Who were the enemies of the Safavids at the time of Shah Abbas? | The Ottoman Turks and the Uzbeks | 17. What caused Shah Abbas to treat his own family so badly? | His fear of conspiracy and being assassinated. | 18. Who was the grand vizier? | The chief minister under the Ottoman Sultan | 19. Why were they called the Gunpowder empires? | Because they conquered and unified areas based on their mastery of guns and gunpowder | 20. Who were janissaries? | elite Ottoman warriors trained to be fearless | 21. In what two ways was the Sultan the supreme authority in the Ottoman system? | Political and military |
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