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 the main differences between your life and the life of a child in Haudenosaunee society or on a seigneurie in New France? | Any differences outlining the contrast in living styles (home, access to medicine, etc.) | 2. What were some of the environmental challenges facing people in early Canada? | Caring for animals in winter, ensuring crops are healthy, etc. | 3. What groups were involved in the Battle of the Plains of Abraham? | The British Army, British Navy, and French Army. | 4. Why would the diaries and letters of expelled Acadians be a good source of their experiences and perspectives? | They would provide a glimpse into how they felt they were being treated by the British, and what their lives were like during that time. | 5. Why did the British government expel the Acadians? | The British viewed them as a threat to the appropriation of their land after the war between New France and 13 English colonies. | 6. What impact did the Royal Proclamation of 1763 and the Treaty of Peace and Friendship of 1760 have on First Nations peoples? | The First Nations peoples felt uneasy since their land was now essentially under British sovereignty, especially after signing a treaty allowing them fishing independence from the French just three years earlier. | 7. What was the North West Company? | A fur-trading business headquartered in Montreal. | 8. What was life like for the Haudenosaunee? | They had their land stolen from them, were diseased, etc. | 9. What role did the Catholic Church play in the lives of colonists in New France? | Any individual that was not Catholic in New France was not allowed to hold positions of power, teach, and were generally persecuted. | 10. What role did the Métis play in the fur trade? | With their knowledge of the land, they were able to help the fur traders survive the harsh West. |
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