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. The year that Fleury died | 1743 | 2. The year Maupeou became Chancellor | 1768 | 3. The year Turgot published his Six Edicts | 1776 | 4. The year of the Diplomatic Revolution | 1756 | 5. The year Pompadour died | 1764 | 6. The year of the Law of Silence | 1754 | 7. The year of the Edict of Marly | 1749 | 8. The year Necker first became finance minister | 1777 | 9. The year Maurepas became chief minister | 1774 | 10. The year D'Aiguillon was made foreign minister | 1771 | 11. The year Brienne became Director-General of Finances | 1787 | 12. The year of Brienne's May Edicts | 1788 | 13. The year of Britain's defeat at Yorktown | 1781 | 14. The year that Joly de Fleury set up the Committee of Finance | 1783 | 15. The year of Choiseul's fall from power | 1770 | 16. CONGRATULATIONS! You have finished! Now make sure the slips are in the right order and hand in to Mr. Lomas for your prize! | ? |
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