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. Chemical weapon used by the Byzantines6 | Greek Fire | 2. An opinion that goes against the church and their beliefs7 | Heresy | 3. Punishment that means removal from the church8 | Excommunication | 4. Debate between the worship of icons9 | Iconoclast Controversy | 5. The two churches that were created when the Christian Church split in 105410 | Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic | 6. Constantine was noted for | 11legalizing Christianity and unifying the empire | 7. Constantinople was | 12being the center of trade | 8. The three series of walls that protect the Byzantine Empire13 | Theodosian Walls | 9. Theodosius nearly bankrupted the empire by | 14paying off Attila | 10. Constantine names the new capital | 15Constantinople | 11. In the Nika Revolt, the word Nika means | 16Conquer | 12. Justinian had to do what before he married Theodora | 17changed the law | 13. The church Hagia Sophia means | 18Holy Wisdom |
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