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. The Civil War occurred during what years? | 1861-1865 | 2. Who was the president of the Union that signed the Emancipation Proclamation? | Abraham Lincoln | 3. List two reasons the southern states left the United States. | Slavery, states’ rights | 4. High tariffs had a huge impact on the different areas of North America. How did these tariffs affect the north, south, and west? | north-liked it, kept business going/south-did not like it, forced to sell to foreign countries/west-liked it, development | 5. Describe the Missouri Compromise. | Missouri(S) and Maine(F), north of the 36-30 line would be free (Henry Clay) | 6. How did the institution of slavery affect the north and south? | north-liked it, free labor and factories/south-did not like it, forced to sell harvested crop to north | 7. John C. Calhoun was upset at high tariffs(taxes) and refused to allow South Carolina to be a part of it. What was this issue called? | Nullification Crisis | 8. Briefly describe the Compromise of 1850. | sponsored by Henry Clay, allowed for California to enter the Union as a free state (pleased the North); the rest of the Southwest was left open to slavery, depending on a vote of the people (popular sovereignty) who settled there (pleased the South); ended the slave trade in Washington, D.C., put allowed those owning slaves to keep them (pleased both sides); included the Fugitive Slave Law- required the return of escaped slaves to their owners (pleased the South, angered the North because they felt it was immoral) | 9. Robert E. Lee surrendered to what general at what location? | Ulysses S. Grant and Appomattox Courthouse | 10. What 3 reasons did the Civil War start? | Sectionalism, States’ Rights, and Slavery | 11. The 1st official fight of the Civil War. | Fort Sumter | 12. The Siege of Vicksburg broke the south into 2 parts. What did the Union take control of to accomplish this? | Mississippi River | 13. “…all men are created equal” is from what speech? | Gettysburg Address | 14. Name the president of the Confederacy. | Jefferson Davis | 15. Name the general from the north that marched from Atlanta to the Atlantic Ocean burning everything in his path. | General Sherman |
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Who was the president of the Union that signed the Emancipation Proclamation?&choe=UTF-8
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List two reasons the southern states left the United States.&choe=UTF-8
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High tariffs had a huge impact on the different areas of North America. How did these tariffs affect the north, south, and west?&choe=UTF-8
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Describe the Missouri Compromise.&choe=UTF-8
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How did the institution of slavery affect the north and south?&choe=UTF-8
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John C. Calhoun was upset at high tariffs(taxes) and refused to allow South Carolina to be a part of it. What was this issue called?&choe=UTF-8
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Briefly describe the Compromise of 1850.&choe=UTF-8
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Robert E. Lee surrendered to what general at what location?&choe=UTF-8
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What 3 reasons did the Civil War start?&choe=UTF-8
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The 1st official fight of the Civil War.&choe=UTF-8
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The Siege of Vicksburg broke the south into 2 parts. What did the Union take control of to accomplish this?&choe=UTF-8
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“…all men are created equal” is from what speech?&choe=UTF-8
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Name the president of the Confederacy. &choe=UTF-8
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Name the general from the north that marched from Atlanta to the Atlantic Ocean burning everything in his path. &choe=UTF-8
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