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. a manufacturing method in which a product is put together as it moves along a belt. | Assembly Line | 2. a company that controls most or all businesses in a particular industry. | Monopoly | 3. led to an enormous expansion in the American steel industry. | Andrew Carnegie | 4. business giant in the oil industry. | John D. Rockefeller | 5. is the process of becoming part of another culture. | Assimilation | 6. Gave women the right to vote. | 19th Amendment | 7. idea that government should play as small a role as possible in economic affairs. | Laissez-faire | 8. An organization of workers formed for the purpose of advancing its members' interests. | Labor Union | 9. Location were European immigrants were processed in 1910. | Ellis Island | 10. Journalists who wrote about the corrupt side of business and public life in magazines; investigate writers who exposed bad condition in American factories, political corruption in city machines, and financial deceit of corporation. | Muckraker |
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