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. Question 1 What century did the Industrial Revolution begin? | 18th century | 2. question 2 Which political revolution took place in 1789? | FRENCH REVOLUTION | 3. Question 3 Forms of Representative government replaced what time of system present during Medieval times? | Feudal system | 4. Question 4 What are two reasons as to why the Industrial Revolution started in Great Britain? | Trade, colonies, inventions, population | 5. Question 5 Complete this statement ‘The sun never sets on the ‘ | British Empire | 6. 6)Name 3 figurative language techniques | personification, idiom, metaphor, simile | 7. 7)Identify the figurative language technique being used in this sentence. "Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're going to get." | Simile | 8. 8)Identify this technique- Giving human qualities or characteristics to animals or inanimate objects | personification | 9. 9) Which suburb/area in London were the Jack the Ripper murders committed? | Whitechapel | 10. 10)What are two uses and two limitations of a painting (from the time) to a historian studying a specific topic in history? | artist’s interpretation, representative of art of time, only a snapshot of history | 11. 11) Fill in this saying that you should remember when completing a Sources Analysis? | W , W , W, W, W, H | 12. 12) Name five inventions if the Industrial Revolution? | Spinning Jenny | 13. 13) Name 3 colonies of Britain? | India, Australia, NZ, Canada, | 14. 14) Identify this figurative language technique Juliet is the sun/He is a pig | Metaphor | 15. 15) Write two examples of alliteration | answer | 16. 16) Where might you find poetry being used?(Name 3 places) | Advertising, Songs, Cards etc | 17. 17) What sorts of jobs did children do in the Industrial Revolution?(Name3 | Newsboy, Mining, Factory worker, Fisherman hand | 18. 18) Name two diseases that people used to die form in the Industrial Revolution? | TB, Cholera | 19. 19) Who invented the lightbulb? | James Watt | 20. 20) Answer this extended response worth 5 marks. ‘The Industrial Revolution caused sweeping changes’ (2 paragraphs) | 21. 21) What year was Australia settled? What year did Australia become a nation? 2 marks | 1788 and 1901 | 22. 22) READ THE POEM YOU HAVE BEEN GIVEN ON YOUR ANSWER SHEET. RESPOND TO THESE QUESTIONS What do you think the poet is trying to say? Identify two techniques used | answer |
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