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. 1. Which president led the army for American Independence | George Washington | 2. 2. Helped write the Constitution | George Washington | 3. 3. Who was the first president to live in the White House | John Adams | 4. 4. Who was president when Louisiana was purchased | Thomas Jefferson | 5. 5. During the War of 1812, who was president | James Madison | 6. 6. Who wrote the Monroe Doctrine that told Europe not to interfere with the west | James Monroe | 7. 7. Name the two presidents that became president after their father | John Q. Adams and George W. Bush | 8. 8. What president had the nickname, “Old Henry” | Andrew Jackson | 9. 9. Which president ran four times | Martin Van Buren | 10. 10. Who was only in office for one month | William Henry Harrison | 11. 11. Name the 1st president that followed a president who died | John Tyler | 12. 12. Who was president when Texas was added | James K. Polk | 13. 13. Who was called “Rough and Ready” and was from Louisiana | Zachery Taylor | 14. 14. The Compromise of 1850 was designed by which president | Milliard Fillmore | 15. 15. The Kansas/Nebraska Act was during which presidential term | Franklin Pierce | 16. 16. Which president was in office when the south succeeded from the Union | James Buchanan | 17. 17. Which president helped abolish slavery | Abraham Lincoln | 18. 18. Who was almost impeached but for one vote | Andrew Johnson | 19. 19. Who was a General in the Civil War and became president | Ulysses S. Grant | 20. 20. Who won by a very close election | Rutherford B. Hayes | 21. 21. Who was assassinated after six months in office | James Garfield | 22. 22. What president started the Civil Service Act | Chester A. Arthur | 23. 23. What president served two terms but they were not in a row | Grover Cleveland | 24. 24. He was a presidents grandson | Benjamin Harrison | 25. 25. The Spanish-American War was fought during which president | William McKinley | 26. 26. Became president after McKinley’s assassination | Theodore Roosevelt | 27. 27. Which president became a Chief Justice on the Supreme Court after his presidency | William H. Taft | 28. 28. President during World War I | Woodrow Wilson | 29. 29. Died in office and was know as a corrupt president from scandals | Warren G. Harding | 30. 30. President during Prohibition and gangsters | Calvin Coolidge | 31. 31. Who was the president during the Great Depression | Herbert Hoover | 32. 32. Elected the most terms and was World War II president | Franklin D. Roosevelt | 33. 33. Was president when America dropped the bomb on Hiroshima that ended WWII | Harry Truman | 34. 34. Helped Space Age to begin | Dwight D. Eisenhower | 35. 35. Assassinated in Dallas while in office | John F. Kennedy | 36. 36. Viet Nam War and he fought for Civil Rights | Lyndon B. Johnson | 37. 37. Resigned because of Watergate scandal | Richard M. Nixon | 38. 38. What president pardoned former president Richard Nixon | Gerald Ford | 39. 39. What president was formerly a peanut farmer | Jimmy Carter | 40. 40. Who said “……tear down that wall” | Ronald Reagan | 41. 41. Led the country in the Persian Gulf War | George Bush | 42. 42. Responsible for the Free Trade Agreement with Canada and Mexico | Bill Clinton | 43. 43. Who was president when America was attacked on Sept. 11, 2001 | George W. Bush | 44. 44. Name the first black president | Barack Obama |
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