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. Civilians serving as soldiers | militia | 2. Killed, injured or captured soldiers | casualties | 3. Peace agreement that officially ended the Revolutionary War | Treaty of Paris in 1783 | 4. Prime minister of Great Britain, asked Parliament to tax the colonists | George Grenville | 5. Refuse to do or buy something | boycott | 6. Law passed by Parliament that required colonists to buy a stamp for all paper goods | Stamp Act of 1765 | 7. Secret societies that used violence to scare tax collectors | Sons of Liberty | 8. Parliament placed taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea | Townshend Acts of 1767 | 9. Nickname given to British soldiers because of their red uniforms | redcoats | 10. Special search warrants that allowed tax collectors to search for smuggled goods | Writs of Assistance | 11. Incident where British soldiers fired into a crowd of angry colonists | Boston Massacre | 12. Protest against the Tea Act, colonists dressed as Indians and dumped tea into Boston Harbor | Boston Tea Party | 13. Set of laws passed to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party and to tighten government control over the colonies | Intolerable Acts | 14. Militia members who were ready to fight at a minute's notice | minutemen | 15. Colonists who fought for Independence | Patriots | 16. Colonists who sided with Great Britain during the Revolutionary War | Loyalists | 17. Low point in the war for the Patriots, they were low on supplies, food, and clothing, many soldiers died of disease and starvation | Valley Forge | 18. A military blockade of a city or fort | Siege | 19. Hired foreign soldiers | mercenaries | 20. Last major battle of the Revolutionary War, British surrendered and had to recognize the USA as an independent country | Battle of Yorktown |
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