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. Take the bingo board you have been given and your booklet to record your answers. You will go around the school looking for QR codes. The QR codes have definitions to words on your bingo card. Scan the code, read the definition, and figure out which word on your card matches. In your booklet, write the word and its matching definition. Then cross that word off your bingo card. At the end of our time, credits will be awarded to those with the most correct words in all and the most bingos (5 in a row, either across, up and down, or diagonally). | 2. form of government in which people choose leaders by voting | democracy | 3. a country that is ruled by a monarch (such as a king or queen) | monarchy | 4. rule, control, or leadership by one person with total power | dictatorship | 5. the group of people who are responsible for making the laws in some kinds of government | parliament | 6. the state of being free: such as the power to do what you want to do : the ability to move or act freely | freedom | 7. having the power to make laws | legislative | 8. to cause (someone) to do something by asking, arguing, or giving reasons | persuade | 9. the system of beliefs and laws by which a country, state, or organization is governed | constitution | 10. to show or express strong disapproval of something at a public event with other people | protest | 11. views that are common among citizens | public opinion | 12. an activity in which several or many people are asked a question or a series of questions in order to get information about what most people think about something | poll | 13. the act or process of choosing someone for a public office by voting | election | 14. a discussion between people in which they express different opinions about something | debate | 15. a person or group that speaks or acts for or in support of another person or group | representation | 16. a way of managing, controlling, organizing, or doing something that follows a set of rules or a plan | system | 17. number of votes that is more than half of the total number | majority | 18. an organization of people who have similar political beliefs and ideas and who work to have their members elected to positions in the government | political party | 19. a person who legally belongs to a country and has the rights and protection of that country | citizen | 20. actions or opinions that show that you disagree with or disapprove of someone or something | opposition | 21. the head of the government in some countries | president | 22. an official agreement that is made between two or more countries or groups | treaty | 23. the whole system or set of rules made by the government of a town, state, country, etc. | law | 24. a situation of confusion and wild behavior in which the people in a country, group, organization, etc., are not controlled by rules or laws | anarchy | 25. the group that is the smaller part of a larger group | minority | 26. he group of people who control and make decisions for a country, state, etc. | government |
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