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. In Western Europe, all people belonged to this church | Catholic Church | 2. The name given to the social structure of Medieval Europe | Feudalism | 3. Competitions organised to train knights during times of peace | Tournaments | 4. Called by those collecting the overwhelming number of dead bodies during the Black Death | Bring out your dead | 5. An animal whose bottom was placed of buboes in the hope of a cure | Chicken | 6. A treatment used to remove bad blood from an ill patient | Blood letting | 7. In what century did the Black Death affect Europe | 14th century | 8. The life expectancy of Medieval men and women was less than | 30 years | 9. The Black Death travelled from Asia to Europe along the... | Trade Route or Silk Road | 10. The Black Death was actually these three plagues | Septicemic Pneumonic Bubonic | 11. This treatment was used by those who believed God would heal them if they punished themselves | Flagellants | 12. What religious group were punished because it was believed they poisoned the wells | Jews | 13. This method of prevention was largely successful because bacteria cannot survive high temperatures | Fire | 14. This method of prevention was successful, although cruel as families were separated and the ill were left to die | Quarantine | 15. These medieval swords were used between 1000 to 1300 CE and were light weapons used with a shield | Arming Sword | 16. This was used to distinguish one knight from another on the battlefield | Coat of Arms | 17. The name given to the background colour or pattern of a coat of arms | Field | 18. This colour was used to symbolise royalty | Purple | 19. A long cruciform hilt means the shape of the handle is a... | Cross | 20. A mace was quite a short weapon of approximately | 70 to 90 cm | 21. A longbow was roughly the same height as | a person | 22. Made of small, interlocking metal rings in a pattern to form a cloth | Chain Mail | 23. A helmet used in the High Middle Ages, resembling a flat ropped cylinder of steel | Great helm |
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