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. Dependency Culture | (theory) the poor stay poor through reliance on welfare (= culture of poverty) | 2. Exploitation | workers are paid much less than the value they produce for employers, causing poverty | 3. Social Democratic | Sociologists explaining of poverty as mainly caused by social factors | 4. Underclass | a theory about growing layers of poor with lax attitudes to unemployment, illegitimacy and crime | 5. Marsland | UK Sociologist who developed the concept of dependency culture | 6. Murray | US sociologist who developed the concept of the underclass | 7. Unemployment | Factor tolerated by the ‘underclass’, threatening economic stability | 8. Illegitimacy | Factor tolerated by the ‘underclass’, threatening family stability | 9. Crime | Factor tolerated by the ‘underclass’, threatening social stability | 10. Marx | Philosopher/political economist: said economic structures determine social relations | 11. Discrimination | Social factor that may lead to poverty (for women, young or old, EMGs) | 12. Reserve army of labour | Layer of KEPT poor to be used to keep wages low (women, youths, EMGs) |
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