QR Challenge: Renaissance & Reformation Scavenger Hunt

Created using the ClassTools QR Treasure Hunt Generator

Teacher Notes

A. Prior to the lesson:

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

• Download a QR reader (e.g. I-Nigma | NeoReader | Kaywa) onto their mobile devices
• Bring these devices into the lesson.

3. Print out the QR codes.

4. Cut them out and place them around your class / school.

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B. The lesson:

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!

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C. TIPS / OTHER IDEAS

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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Questions / Answers (teacher reference)

Question	Answer
1. The most devastating pandemics in human history	The Black Plague
2. Period in Italy marked by a sudden explosion in the arts and culture	Renaissance
3. Movement of Christians away from the Catholic Church to a new form of Christianity	Protestant Reformation
4. Belief that each person is valuable or important for their own sake	Individualism
5. Celebrating the self and all that makes us human	Humanism
6. Belonging to this world living here and now	Secularism
7. During the Middle Ages people began to search for new answers and ask new questions	Skepticism
8. Ruled in the Republic of Florence during the late 14th century	Medici
9. A city that with its surrounding territory forms an independent state	City State
10. Used moveable metal letters this method of printing can be credited for a revolution in the production of books	Printing Press
11. Writer of The Prince who believed immoral acts are justified if they serve the interest of the state	Machiavelli
12. Period when the Renaissance thrives and reaches new grandeur in Rome	High Renaissance
13. Students and scholars of Northern Europe visit Italy are influenced by Renaissance culture allowing it to spread	Northern Renaissance
14. Best known Christian humanist who believed that Christianity should show people how to live good lives on a daily basis	Erasmus
15. Humanist whose book Utopia was about a nearly perfect society based on reason and mercy	More
16. Inventor of the printing press	Johannes Gutenberg
17. Practice of the Catholic Church accepting money in exchange for absolution from sins	Indulgences
18. Monk in the Catholic Church who wrote the Ninety Five Theses who believed that humans were not saved by their good works but by their faith in God	Martin Luther
19. Written by Martin Luther it attacked Catholic Church practices and was nailed to the door of Wittenberg Castle	Ninety Five Theses
20. Luther's religious movement becomes a revolution and he begins setting up new religious services to replace the Catholic mass	Lutheranism
21. Gathering of the Imperial Diet in Germany where Martin Luther and his Protestant ideals went on trial	Diet of Worms
22. Protestant reformer who believed that the elect will be saved from sin and hoped for a theocratic form of government	John Calvin
23. God has determined in advance who will be saved and who will be damned	Predestination
24. A group of institutions within the judicial system of the Roman Catholic Church whose aim was to combat heresy	The Inquisition
25. Meeting that began in 1545 where a group of cardinals archbishops bishops abbots and theologians met to focus on revitalizing the Catholic Church	Council of Trent
26. Term Protestant historians use when referring to the reforms of the Catholic Church during the Reformation	Counter Reformation
27. Term Catholic historians use when referring to the sincere desire of popes to end church corruption during the Reformation	Catholic Reformation
28. He studied the movement of planets for 30 years and concluded that the sun was the center of the universe	Copernicus
29. He proposed the laws of planetary motion that stated that planets revolve around the sun in elliptical orbits	Kepler
30. He discovered the law of the pendulum studied laws motion and successfully built a telescope that could study the heavens	Galileo

 

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