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. 1. Name the southern state where Lyndon B. Johnson was born and raised. | Texas | 2. 2. L. B. J. started his lifetime career of serving others as a __________. | teacher | 3. 3. L.B. J. was the youngest person elected to Congress. Name the two positions he held in Congress | Representative and Senator | 4. 4. Due to much of his boyhood being spend in poverty, LBJ worked hard in Congress and voted on laws that helped _______________, _____________________, and_______________________. | schools, road, and electricity | 5. 5. Johnson felt very strongly when he saw people being treated unfairly, so as a Senator he used his skill at persuading people to make new laws against __________________. | segregation | 6. 6. What government office did Johnson run for with John F. Kennedy? | Vice President | 7. 7. When President John F. Kennedy was killed, what happened to L.B.J? | He became the president | 8. 8. President Johnson worked hard to get Congress to pass the 1964 Civil Rights Act. What character trait did LBJ use to get the bill passed? | diligence | 9. 9. Johnson’s campaign promise to “end poverty and racial injustice and a place where every child can find knowledge” was known as _________________________. | The Great Society | 10. 10. President Johnson selected Thurgood Marshall to be the first African American to be on the ________________________ | US Supreme Court |
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