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. Cause | Napolean excludes British goods from "fortress Europe" | 2. Effect2 | American ships caught in middle as British respond with blockade. British seize 1000 U.S. ships, French ca. 500.2 | 3. Cause3 | British impress American sailors3 | 4. Effect4 | British captains took over 10,000 American citizens to man ships4 | 5. Cause5 | Chesapeake - Leopard fight5 | 6. Effect6 | Chesapeake fired on by Leopard after refusing to be boarded and 3 Americans killed, 18 wounded6 | 7. Cause7 | Embargo Act7 | 8. Effect8 | Jefferson's attempts at "peaceful coercion" resulted in economic disaster for merchants8 | 9. Cause9 | War Hawks elected to Congress9 | 10. Effect10 | Calhoun, Clay, other bothered by insults to U.S. and Indian presence10 | 11. Cause11 | Battle of Tippecanoe11 | 12. Effect12 | Tecumseh's brother (the Prophet) led attack on Harrison's army of 100012 | 13. Cause13 | Congress declares "Mr. Madison's War"13 | 14. Effect14 | Pushed by War Hawks, Madison asked for declaration and all Federalist oppose it14 | 15. Cause15 | British capture Ft. Mackinac15 | 16. Effect16 | U.S. lost fort as British invade American territory16 | 17. Cause17 | Invasion attempts of Canada17 | 18. Effect18 | 3 attemps of U.S. to invade Canada all fail18 | 19. Cause19 | Constitution vs. Guerriere19 | 20. Effect20 | Victory by U.S. ship ("Old Ironsides") and other privateers captured or burned British ships20 | 21. Cause21 | Battle of Frenchtown21 | 22. Effect22 | Kentucky troops repelled by British and Indians in bloody fighting and American survivors killed in Raisin River22 |
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