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. Why was the French and Indian War a cause of the American Revolution? | The colonists were upset because the British Parliament would not allow them to move into the Ohio River Valley. | 2. How did Parliament decide they would pay for the French and Indian War?2 | Make colonists pay taxes. | 3. Why were the colonists upset about the new tax laws?3 | They did not have representation in Parliament to decide on the tax laws. | 4. What form of protesting did the colonists use to cause Parliament to repeal the Townshend Acts?4 | boycotting | 5. How did the colonists solve the problem if not getting cloth from Britian because of boycotting?5 | Daughters of Liberty started weaving their own. |
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