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. What was Antietam | Antietam was the bloodiest one day battle | 2. This was the firdst battle of the Civil War | Fort Sumter | 3. The turning Point of the war in favor of the north. There were many deaths and General Lee lost 1/3 of his troops. Lincoln addressed this battle in on e of the most famous speeches ever written | Gettysburg | 4. This is the place where the south surrendered | Appomattox Courthouse | 5. This union victory was important because it stoppped the Britisn from backing up the south and it led to the Emancipation Proclamation | Vicksburg | 6. The capital of the Confederacy | Richmond, Virginia |
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