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.
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| 1. The Middle Ages in Europe refers to the 1000-year period | following the collapse of the Roman Empire in the West. | 2. The manor was the 2 | Basic social and economic unit during feudal times. | 3. In the feudal period, a personal bond of loyalty was sworn by a _______to a ______.3 | vassal / lord | 4. Charlemagne was 4 | The ruler who created the first empire in Western Europe since the fall of the Roman Empire | 5. Who of the following is most noted for having envisioned a new kingdom called Christendom? 5 | Pope Gregory I | 6. The practices of the Catholic Church whereby followers receive salvation are called the 6 | Seven Sacraments | 7. The pope and the Holy Roman Emperor had a major disagreement over what issue?7 | lay investiture | 8. Repeated ____________ and ______________ caused a series of changes that altered the economy, government, and culture of Western Europe society.8 | plagues and crime | 9. In the Roman province of Gaul (mainly what is now_______________ and _____________), a Germanic people called the Franks held power. 9 | France and Switzerland | 10. _________________ played a key role in spreading Christianity. By 600, the Church, with the help of Frankish rulers, had converted many Germanic peoples.10 | politics | 11. Around 520, an Italian monk named ______________ began writing a book describing a strict yet practical set of rules for monasteries.11 | Benedict | 12. The Italian monk's sister, ______________, headed a convent and adapted the same rules for women.12 | Scholastica | 13. In 590, Gregory I, also called Gregory the Great, became pope. As head of the Church in Rome, Gregory broadened the authority of the papacy, or ______________, beyond its spiritual role.13 | pope's office | 14. Government system that developed in the Middle Ages in which an oath of loyalty was sworn and land was given for the purpose of protection:14 | Feudalism | 15. How were serfs different from slaves?15 | Serfs could not be bought, sold or traded like slaves | 16. What was the role of the knights during the Middle Ages?16 | To defend the lands of his lord | 17. The central European Empire (encompassing modern-day Germany and northern Italy) that worked closely with the Church to protect Christianity was the 17 | Holy Roman Empire | 18. What was the religion of Europe during the Middle Ages, serving as the most civilizing force in society?18 | Roman Catholic Church |
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