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. F. To find the QR code with your first question, you need to find the above locker mural that contains http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_aEgTedPqUK4/R31-n1cG24I/AAAAAAAADeY/sN_cQmPqa64/s400/Slogan.jpg | [This code stays in the room.] | 2. F1. The British exploited Indian diversity to help them take over the country. How specifically did the British exploit Indian diversity? {Hint: Watch/listen to this to find your next code http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAw6Gc57ISQ } | British encouraged competition and disunity.{Put this code by the Visa painting outside the first computer lab at the top of the stairs.} | 3. F2. Define sepoy AND tell what sepoys were required to do that was against their beliefs. {You will find your next code in the Little Mermaid’s favorite stairway.} | Sepoys were Indian soldiers under control of the East India Company. Sepoys were required to serve anywhere (in India or overseas); for high-class Hindus, overseas travel was an offense against their religion. Hindus saw that and the new law that Hindu widows could remarry as a Christian conspiracy to undermine their beliefs. [Put this code in the Wild West Staircase; clip was of horse and sound of hoof beats.] | 4. F3. Direct British colonial rule of India began in 1858 (in the aftermath of the Sepoy Rebellion). How did the British ruin the Indian textile industry, which once had been the biggest in the world? {Unscramble the following word to find yourself down the right “avenue” CDMACEAI .} | Britain saw India as a market and a source of raw materials. India’s once-prosperous hand-weaving industry was ruined when the British flooded India with inexpensive, machine-made textiles. [Put this code in the ocean stairway.] | 5. F4. How did western education influence the creation of the Indian Nationalist Movement? | The British hope was for the western-educated Indians to be “interpreters” between the British and Indians to bolster British power. The reality was that exposure to the western ideals of democracy and equality led to dreams of ending imperial rule. {Put this code along Academic Avenue.} |
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