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. John Cabot sailed for what European country? | England | 2. Franciso Pizarro and Hernan Cortes were both conquistadors, or soldier-explorers from __________.2 | Spain2 | 3. I was the first to circumnavigate the world.3 | Ferdinand Magellan3 | 4. I have two bodies of water named after me.4 | Henry Hudson4 | 5. I was the first European to sail around the tip of Africa.5 | Vasco da Gama5 | 6. I landed in the New World in 1492. I named the native people Indians because I thought I landed off of the coast of India. Oops!6 | Christopher Columbus6 | 7. I explored South America and conquered the Incas.7 | Francisco Pizarro7 | 8. A knotted rope used by the Inca for math and record keeping.8 | quipu8 | 9. The mother culture of Mesoamerica.9 | Olmec9 | 10. The capital city of the Aztecs was ___________________.10 | Tenochtitlan10 | 11. Christopher Columbus was searching for this when he sailed in 1492.11 | A new route to Asia11 | 12. A soldier-explorer sent to the Americas by Spain.12 | conquistador12 | 13. We still are not sure why this civilization declined around AD 900.13 | The Maya13 | 14. The exchange of goods, slaves and disease between Europe, Asia, and the Americas is called this.14 | Columbian Exchange14 |
John Cabot sailed for what European country?&choe=UTF-8
Question 1 (of 14)
Franciso Pizarro and Hernan Cortes were both conquistadors, or soldier-explorers from __________.2&choe=UTF-8
Question 2 (of 14)
I was the first to circumnavigate the world.3&choe=UTF-8
Question 3 (of 14)
I have two bodies of water named after me.4&choe=UTF-8
Question 4 (of 14)
I was the first European to sail around the tip of Africa.5&choe=UTF-8
Question 5 (of 14)
I landed in the New World in 1492. I named the native people Indians because I thought I landed off of the coast of India. Oops!6&choe=UTF-8
Question 6 (of 14)
I explored South America and conquered the Incas.7&choe=UTF-8
Question 7 (of 14)
A knotted rope used by the Inca for math and record keeping.8&choe=UTF-8
Question 8 (of 14)
The mother culture of Mesoamerica.9&choe=UTF-8
Question 9 (of 14)
The capital city of the Aztecs was ___________________.10&choe=UTF-8
Question 10 (of 14)
Christopher Columbus was searching for this when he sailed in 1492.11&choe=UTF-8
Question 11 (of 14)
A soldier-explorer sent to the Americas by Spain.12&choe=UTF-8
Question 12 (of 14)
We still are not sure why this civilization declined around AD 900.13&choe=UTF-8
Question 13 (of 14)
The exchange of goods, slaves and disease between Europe, Asia, and the Americas is called this.14&choe=UTF-8
Question 14 (of 14)
