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. C. To find the QR code with your first question, you need to find the stairway of equines. | this code remains in the classroom | 2. C1. What was the goal of the East India Company? {To locate the next code, find the mural with this picture https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSTeO1CccgUKRnjKTzUnQakc8nZRUqks833jXohTmSaCMJLP1dyfg | Make $[Put this code in the Wild West stairway] | 3. C2. Define sepoy AND explain how/why new rifles caused a problem for Hindu and Muslim sepoys. {You will find your next code in the mural with a painting of a vegetable know as maize.} | Sepoys were Indian soldiers under control of the East India Company. In 1857, the British issued new rifles; the tips of the cartridges had to be bitten off before loading them in to the rifles. The problem was that the cartridges were greased with animal fat—either from cows (which Hindus considered sacred) or from pigs (which were forbidden to Muslims). When troops refused the order to “load rifles” they were sent home without pay.[Put this code by the mount Rushmore painting outside Dr. Hagemann’s room] | 4. C3. How was Indian agriculture transformed AND what environmental problems resulted? {to find your next code, go to the alley named for the creator of E = mc2} | Nomadic herders were encouraged to settle into farming. Farmers were pushed to grow cash crops like cotton and jute for the world market (will be part of what leads to famines in the late 1800s). Clearing the new farmlands led to massive deforestation.[Put this code by the corn cob in the mural in the ag wing] | 5. C4. What were the goals of the Indian National Congress? What part of the population did they represent? | Indian National Congress (a.k.a. Congress party) was organized by nationalist leaders in 1885. Members were mostly professionals and business leaders who believed in peaceful protest to achieve their goals which was for greater democracy (to bring more power to Indians like themselves) and eventual self-rule. The Congress party did support western-style modernization.[Put this code by Einstein Alley sign.] |
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