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. What are consumers and producers able to do based on free enterprise | free to make economic decisions and choices | 2. Define innovation | new inventions, ideas, products, & methods | 3. Industrialization is an economic system based on factory production. What is used along with the help from people | machines and technology | 4. Define urbanization | from small (rural) towns to big cities | 5. What is using machines in the production process | mechanization | 6. The industrial revolution refers to a change from ________________ to ______________ (fill in the blanks) | hand and home production to machine and factories mass producing goods | 7. What did the factory system do for the 1st time | brought workers and machines under one roof | 8. What made New England an ideal place to set up factories | water power, access to ships, oceans to transport goods, & a willing labor force | 9. What eventually allowed factories to be built away from the New England area | factories powered by steam engine | 10. What was the main goal/plan of the American System | make America more economically self-sufficient (rely on us) | 11. What were 2 impacts of the steam boat | travel up and down rivers & cheaper/faster shipping | 12. Who was the inventor of the cotton gin & what did the invention do | Eli Whitney and cleans/separates seeds from cotton more efficient | 13. What impact did the cotton gin have on the north | demand for cotton increased manufacturing in the north (textile mills) | 14. What were the 2 impacts the cotton gin had on the south | need for more land and slaves (drastic rise) & cotton farmers moved further west to grow cotton | 15. Who was the inventor of interchangeable parts & what are interchangeable parts | parts that look identical and easily replaced (assembly line) | 16. What were 2 impacts about interchangeable parts | led to mass production of goods (faster/more efficient) & growth of cities and factory system | 17. What is a canal & which canal had a huge impact on New York | man-made waterway/route for shipping and traveling. Erie Canal | 18. What was the biggest impact that the Erie Canal had on New York City | NY became the nation's largest center for trade/commerce | 19. How did the Erie Canal impact the western part of the United States | connected east to west, transported people and goods west, & opened development/settlement of West | 20. What were 2 impacts of the telegraph & who was the inventor | communications across long distances & westward expansion (increased settlement of West) | 21. What were 3 impacts of the steam locomotive | reduced cost of shipping, connect east to west, & opened up settlements away from rivers and ports | 22. What were 3 impacts of railroads | major cities became economic centers of distribution, connected east to west, & opened up development/settlement of West | 23. Who was the inventor of the steel plow & what was the impact of the steel plow | John Deere & increased movement of farmers to the Midwest (westward expansion) | 24. What were the 2 impacts of the Bessemer steel process | steel used in railroad production and farm machines & building of skyscrapers |
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