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. What industries prospered due to the popularity of the automobile? | rubber, oil, steel, gas stations | 2. Who is known for making baseball America's favorite past time? | baseball | 3. Who is known for the first trans-Atlantic flight? | Charlies Lindbergh | 4. Who is known for being the first woman to fly across the Atlantic and attempted a flight around the world? | Amelia Earhart | 5. What type of music became popular during the 1920s? | Jazz | 6. Where was the Harlem Renaissance? | Harlem, NYC | 7. Who was an African-American writer who wrote mostly of the struggles of African-Americans in hopes to change how they were treated? | Langston Hughes | 8. Who was a famous Jazz singer and trumpeter? | Louis Armstrong | 9. Who is known for the production of the Model T? | Henry Ford | 10. Who is known for the creation of an assembly line? | Henry Ford | 11. What was prohibition? | banning of alcohol | 12. What were the effects (at least 2) of an assembly line? | cheaper prices, more production, more people buying | 13. What was installment buying? | paying a little at a time | 14. Why did gangs pop up during the 1920s? | answers will vary | 15. What amendment prohibited alcohol? | 18th | 16. What amendment gave women the right to vote (women's suffrage)? | 19th | 17. What amendment repealed (took away) prohibition? | 21st amendment | 18. What were at least 5 fads of the 1920s? | answers will vary | 19. How were movies different during the 1920s? | no sound, shorter, cheaper, b/w | 20. What invention allowed Americans to stay informed with news and be entertained with music, baseball games, etc.? | radio | 21. What nicknames were given to this time period? | Roaring Twenties, Jazz Age | 22. Describe flappers. | answers will vary | 23. What is the rise of African-American writers, singers, musicians, and artists known as? | Harlem Renaissance | 24. Who did not have a prosperous time during the Roaring Twenties? | African americans, farmers, immigrants | 25. Why did farmers have a tough time during the Twenties after WWI? | too many crops, borrowed money for machines and cannot pay back |
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