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. Native American tribe of the Great Plains. Lived in tepees made of deerskin and wood rods. Hunted buffalo and farmed if close enough to water. Wore buffalo hide. | Lakota | 2. Hunting through a hole in the ice. Used harpoons to spear seal when it appeared in hole. Used by the Inuit. | Ice Hunting | 3. A method used by the Iroquois to clear the land for farming. Killed the tree by cutting it, then used fire to make it fall | Dry Farming | 4. Native American tribe of the Norhteastern Woodlands. Lives in longhouses. Farmed the three sisters (squash, beans, and corn) and hunted deer and small animals. Wore clothes made of deerskin | Iroquois | 5. Houses made of blocks of ice, snow, and the occasional whale bone. Made by the Inuit | Igloos(Snow Huts) | 6. Animal used by the Lakota. Hunted as a food source, clothing, and used to build tepees | Buffalo | 7. Houses made of plank wood or cedar. Slightly elevated to avoid floods. Called | Longhouses made by Iroquois | 8. The Tlingi used environment in a varity of ways however they did not do what? | Farming | 9. Did all Indians rebel against the Americans when they kept relocating the Indians? | No. Add more info | 10. What Act/Treaty first put Indians in reservations? | Fort Laramie Treaty. Add more info | 11. What are Kachina ceremonies? | Ceremonies to bring the rain | 12. How geography impacted Native Americans' life, culture, and traditions? | Your answer in one paragraph. |
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