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. Defended British soldiers after the Boston Massacre, Continental congress, supporter of independance | John Adams | 2. Wife of Massachustts Patroit, anonymously wrote several propganda pices supporting the patriot cause2 | Mercy Otis Warren2 | 3. Spanish nobleman, protected American ships in the port of New Orleans3 | Bernardo de Balvez3 | 4. Jewish immigrant to America, financing the Revolution, arristed by the British as a spy, encouraged German soldiers to desert the British army4 | Haym Salomon4 | 5. a French aristocrat, fought in the American Revolution, commanding forces as a major-general in the colonial army5 | Marquis de Lafayette5 | 6. "father of the American Navy"6 | John Paul Jones6 |
Defended British soldiers after the Boston Massacre, Continental congress, supporter of independance&choe=UTF-8
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Wife of Massachustts Patroit, anonymously wrote several propganda pices supporting the patriot cause2&choe=UTF-8
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Spanish nobleman, protected American ships in the port of New Orleans3&choe=UTF-8
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Jewish immigrant to America, financing the Revolution, arristed by the British as a spy, encouraged German soldiers to desert the British army4&choe=UTF-8
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a French aristocrat, fought in the American Revolution, commanding forces as a major-general in the colonial army5&choe=UTF-8
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"father of the American Navy"6&choe=UTF-8
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