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. All the people executed as witches at Salem were hung, except this person, who was pressed to death under stones | Giles Corey | 2. The people in Salem were accused mostly on the basis of this kind of evidence | Spectral | 3. Although there is some debate whether she was Native or African American, there is no doubt this woman played a role in inciting the Salem Witch hysteria | Tituba | 4. After the events associated with the Witch Trials, Salem Village later changed its name to this, because of the bad image people had of the town | Danvers | 5. True or false-One of many theories about the cause of the witch trials is that the accusers had eaten stale rye bread contaminated with ergot, a fungus similar to LSD | True |
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