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. A place settled and governed by people from a far-off land | Colony | 2. Country that Europeans most wanted to trade with | China | 3. Island tree that the Chinese like | sandalwood | 4. Large Farms usually controlled by Europeans or Americans | plantations | 5. Divided by the United States and Germany in 1899 | Samoa | 6. Taken over by U.S. sugar planters | Hawaii | 7. Only major group not taken as a colony | Tonga | 8. Lost all its Pacific possessions after World War I | Germany | 9. Name three items that the Pacific islanders used as resources | sandalwood, copra,coal | 10. This country started controlling island before 1900 | United States | 11. After war with Spain in 1898, the United Stake took over | the Philippines and Guam | 12. Before World War 1, most of the Pacific islands were take over by | Britian and France | 13. True or False. After World War 1, Britain gave control of many islands to New Zealand and Australia. | True | 14. True or False.Chiefs and white businessmen were the only islanders who made much money when islands were developed. | True | 15. True or False. Westerners took over Pacific islands because of the islands' great wealth. | False | 16. Short Response. Why was Europe slow to become interested in the Pacific? | You must write in complete sentences | 17. Short Response. Why did Europe want colonies? | You must write in complete sentences | 18. Short Response How did Europe and the United States take over islands? | You must write in complete sentences |
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