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 did the 19th amendment allow? | suffrage for women | 2. What industry did Andrew Carnegie monopolize? | Steel | 3. What African American leader supported the idea of economic opportunity rather than political equality? | Booker T. Washington | 4. John D. Rockefeller made his fortune in what? | oil | 5. Which African American leader was a key founder of the NAACP? | W.E.B. Dubois | 6. What law barred Chinese immigration for 10 years and prevented Chinese already in the country from becoming citizens? | Chinese Exclusion Act | 7. What was the Supreme Court’s decision in the Plessy v. Ferguson case? | segregation of public accommodations was legal as long as it was separate but equal. | 8. What did the Platt Amendment establish? | Some control in Cuba | 9. What railroad line linked the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean? | Transcontinental Railroad | 10. What group of people made up a significant percentage of the countries largest cities? | immigration | 11. The sinking of this ship was used as a reason for the US to declare war against Spain. | USS Main | 12. What type of media led United States citizens to support going to war with Spain? | Yellow Journalism | 13. What group of people did the grandfather clause prevent from voting? | African Americans | 14. Who led the biggest democratic political machine in NYC during the Gilded Age? | Boss Tweed. | 15. What military unit, led by Theodore Roosevelt, was victorious at San Juan Hill? | Rough Riders | 16. What was the first nationwide industrial union? | The Knights of Labor | 17. What two brothers were the first to fly an airplane? | write brothers | 18. What compromise ended reconstruction? | compromise of 1877 | 19. What did the Dawes Act establish? | The placement of American Indians in reservations. | 20. Who was Thaddeus Stevens? | republican congressman who lobbied for the 13th amendment. | 21. Who was the Queen of Hawaii that vouched for her countries independence? | Queen Liliuokalani | 22. What photographer created “How the Other Half Lives”? | Jacob Riis | 23. What famous cartoonist exposed the corruption of the local and national government ? | Thomas Nast | 24. What did the 17th amendment establish? | direct election of Senators. | 25. What were the four demands of the Populist Party? | government ownership of railroads, coinage of silver, bank regulation and graduated income tax. | 26. Which group helped establish education for Blacks during reconstruction? | The Freedman’s Bureau | 27. What territories did the United States gain from the Spanish American War? | Guam, Puerto Rico, Philippines | 28. What is a scalawag? | a | 29. What was a major immigration port on the East coast? | Ellis Island | 30. Who did the poll tax prevent from voting? | African Americans and poor people. |
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