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 actions used by one nation to exercise political or economic control over a smaller or weaker nation. | Imperialism | 2. A policy that allowed each foreign nation in China to trade freely in the other nations'spheres of influence. | Open Door Policy | 3. A country that is technically independent but is actually under the control of another country. | Protectorate | 4. Incorporating a territory within the domain of a country. | Annexation | 5. Type of sensational, biased, and often false reporting for the sake of attracting readers. | Yellow Journalism | 6. Extreme nationalism marked by aggressive foreign policy. | Jingoism | 7. Section of a country where one foreign nation enjoys special rights and powers. | Sphere of Influence | 8. A policy of joining the business interests of a country with its diplomatic interests abroad. | Dollar Diplomacy | 9. The belief that it was the destiny of the United States to expand overseas and spread its civilization to other people. | Anglo-Saxonism | 10. Law that stated that the United States would intervene in Latin American affairs when necessary to maintain stability in the Western Hemisphere. | Roosevelt Corollary |
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