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. When was the Social Security Act passed? | August 1935 | 2. Social Security was part of a set of programs passed & became known as what? | Second New Deal | 3. Who opposed Roosevelt's reelection in 1936? | Business Leaders | 4. The Social Security Act helped laid off workers, disabled workers, needy families and... | elderly people | 5. Who thought FDR's New Deal went too far? | Many conservatives | 6. Who thought the New Deal was moving the country toward socialism? | Conservatives in America | 7. Was FDR a Democrat or a Republican? | Democrat | 8. What act had workers and employers make payments into a special fund from which they would draw a pension after they retired? | Social Security Act |
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