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. Compromise of 1850 allowed 1 more free state than slave state into the Union. | none | 2. Compromise of 1850 also created a very harsh Fugitive Slave Act, forcing Northerners to report and return runaway slaves the South. | none | 3. The rain in Spain falls mainly in the plains | none | 4. Tensions over slavery led to issues like the Compromise of 1850, the creation of the Free-soil Party and the Fugitive Slave Act. | none | 5. Uncle Tom’s Cabin became a driving force in the expansion of the the Abolitionist Movement. | none | 6. Kansas-Nebraska Act used the idea of popular sovereignty to decide if slavery would exist in new states. | none | 7. Did you know Coca-Cola used to be the color green? | none | 8. Pro- and Anti-slavery settlers flooded into Kansas territory where tempers erupted into violence in what was known as Bleeding Kansas. | none | 9. Famed Anti-slavery senator Charles Sumner was beaten by Preston Brooks with a cane on the Senate Floor after comments he made. | none | 10. FYI-cattle can be led upstairs, but never downstairs | none | 11. The new Republican Party was formed as an Anti-slavery challenger to Southern Democrats. | none | 12. Dred Scott SCOTUS decision claimed that no African-Americans could be considered citizens of the the U.S. | none | 13. More money is printed everyday for Monopoly than the US Treasury | none | 14. Abraham Lincoln emerged as a legitimate politician after his debates with Stephen Douglas. | none | 15. John Brown and a small group seized weapons from a federal armory in Harper’s Ferry, Virginia in hopes of starting a slave uprising. | none | 16. John Brown was convicted of murder and treason for his actions and condemned to death. | none | 17. Southerners feared a “John Brown the second” to which a South Carolina newspaper stated “the sooner we get out of the Union, the better”. | none | 18. Did you know the US government owns 1 of every 3 acres in the United States | none | 19. Abraham Lincoln won the 1860 presidential election, signalling a major backlash from Southern states. | none | 20. South Carolina became the first state to secede from the Union after Lincoln’s election. | none | 21. South Carolina, Texas, Louisiana, Georgia, Alabama, Florida and Mississippi joined together to form the Confederate States of America. | none | 22. There is only one bird that can fly backwards: the Hummingbird | none | 23. Jefferson Davis became the Confederate president. | none |
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