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. 1. Who fought in the French and Indian war? | France and Great Britain | 2. 2. How did England suffer from the French and Indian War? | lost money and soldiers | 3. 3. How did England gain from the French and Indian War? | gained more land | 4. 4. Why was the war called the French and Indian War? | because the French and Indians actually were allies | 5. 5. Why did the British government pass the Proclamation of 1763? | to keep the colonists and Indians from fighting over land | 6. 6. What agreement came from the Proclamation of 1763? What happened with all the parties involved? | Colonists got land east of the Appalachian Mountains, and Indians got land to the west | 7. 7. The colonists didn't like the Stamp Act because it was another form of tax. How did the Stamp Act work? | Colonists had to buy a stamp for all printed materials. | 8. 8. What did the Quartering Act do? Explain in complete sentences. | Colonists had to provide room and board for any British soldiers. | 9. 9. Why did the British enact the Quartering Act? | Britain didn't have money to maintain the soldiers in the colonies, so made the colonists pay for them by having to take care of their room and board. | 10. 10. How/why did the Boston Massacre start? | colonists were harassing the redcoats and one of the redcoats opened fire on the mob. | 11. 11. What were the Intolerable Acts? | all the acts that created new taxes for the colonists. | 12. 12. You studied how the relationship between England and the colonists were like a parent and a child. Using complete sentences, give examples from your workbook of this relationship and explain what it meant for history. | see worksheets |
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