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. | 2. | 3. 1. Who was the leader of the Cuban rebels when the United States entered the Spanish-American War? | Jose Marti | 4. | 5. 2. Who led the insurrection in the Philippines? | Emilio Aguinaldo | 6. | 7. 3. What was Alfred Thayer Mahan’s main idea in The Influence of Sea Power on History? | The strongest empires/nations in the world have always had strong navies | 8. | 9. 4. What was the name of the battleship that blew up in the Havana harbor, helping bring the United States into war against Spain? | USS Maine | 10. | 11. 5. What foreign policy from the early 1900s expanded on the goals of the Monroe Doctrine? | Roosevelt Corollary | 12. | 13. 6. Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines became U.S. possessions as a result of what war? | Spanish-American War | 14. | 15. 7. What is the term used to describe Teddy Roosevelt’s foreign policy? | Big Stick Diplomacy | 16. | 17. 8. Who was the queen of Hawaii at the time of its annexation by the United States? | Queen Liliuokalani | 18. | 19. 9. What were the three things Alfred Thayer Mahan said that the United States had to have to become an international super power with a strong navy? | overseas bases, expanded commerce, isthmian canal | 20. | 21. 10. What is the term for the belief that certain nations and races are inherently superior and more fit to rule over weaker nations? | Social Darwinism | 22. | 23. 11. Who was the American naval commander who opened up trade with the Japanese for the first time in centuries? | Matthew Perry | 24. | 25. 12. Who was the Secretary of State that purchased Alaska? | William Seward | 26. | 27. 13. What was the name of the Spanish ambassador that wrote a letter insulting President McKinley which thereby worsened American relations with Spain? | De Lome | 28. | 29. 14. What was the name of the treaty that ended the Russo-Japanese War? | Treaty of Portsmouth | 30. | 31. 15. What is the Gentleman’s Agreement? | US agreed to desegregate schools in California if Asian nations agreed to limit emigration | 32. | 33. 16. What did the Platt Amendment say/do? | restricted rights of newly freed Cubans; prevented Cuba from signing treaties w/o US permission; required Cuba to lease naval station to United States | 34. | 35. 17. Who was the man who helped eradicate the yellow fever problem in the Panama Canal Zone? | William Crawford Gorgas | 36. | 37. 18. Who led Mexican rebels on raids into the southwestern United States during the early 1900s? | Pancho Villa | 38. | 39. 19. What is the term used to describe Woodrow Wilson’s foreign policy? | moral diplomacy | 40. | 41. 20. Who was the general sent by President Wilson on a punitive expedition into Mexico to chase Pancho Villa? | John J. Pershing |
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