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. In the 1920's, what percentage had 1/3 of the wealth? | 5% | 2. How did people buy stocks before the Great Depression? | Credit | 3. What is Stock Speculation? | Intentionally buying stock to drive up price | 4. What was the name given to the day when the stock market crashed? | Black Tuesday | 5. What happened to the banks during the Great Depression? | Lost a lot of money buying stocks | 6. What was the Hawley Smoot Tariff? | Tax to encourage U.S. products to be bought instead of imports | 7. What percentage was the unemployment rate during the Great Depression? | About 25% | 8. How much did paychecks decline during the Great Depression? | 30% | 9. What is a Hooverville? | Makeshift shanty towns | 10. What happens to the price of a product when there is overproduction? | Prices fall | 11. What is an Okie? | Farmers who left to find work | 12. What was a weekly radio addresses to explain the programs by FDR called? | Fireside Chats | 13. What Act set the maximum work hours and a minimum wage to .25 an hour? | Fair Labor Standards Act | 14. What was "court packing" | Keep adding justices until they vote his way | 15. What was vocal for Black American and Women’s Rights | Eleanor Roosevelt |
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