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.
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| 1. This was the site of a famous battle between Mexico and Texas. All 183 of the Americans defending the building were killed. | Alamo | 2. Many settlers walked this route, traveling alongside their canvas-covered wagons. | Oregon Trail | 3. This prospector talked his way into a partnership of a profitable and famous Nevada mining claim. The claim was later named after him. | Henry Comstock | 4. After this system was built it allowed manufactured goods and settlers to easily travel as far as western New York state. | Erie Canal | 5. Two railway lines met here, forming a railway system that crossed the entire United States. The meeting place was marked by a gold railway spike. | Promontory, Utah | 6. During the winter of 1838 to 1839, 15,000 Indians were forced to move west from their home in Georgia to Oklahoma. | Trail of Tears | 7. This reform offered 160 acres of land to anyone who would settle in the west. Many families built their new houses out of earth and grasses. | Homestead Act | 8. Built on the American River, this settlement attracted many pioneers. In 1948, James Marshall discovered gold farther up the river. | Sutter's Fort | 9. This place sits beside the Oregon Trail about halfway from Missouri and was a stopping place for many wagon trains on their way west. | Independence Rock, Wyoming | 10. For this service, which lasted only a year and a half, daring young riders raced on horseback from Missouri to California and back. | Pony Express |
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