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 environment of the Arabian Peninsula is hard to live in because | It is covered by vast deserts | 2. A Muslim place of worship | Mosque | 3. What are the five pillars of Islam? | Declaration of faith, prayer 5x, almsgiving, fasting, pilgrimage | 4. Muslims pray toward | Mecca | 5. Which part of the Roman Empire, Eastern or Western was more affected by the barbarian tribes? | Western | 6. The capital city of the Byzantine Empire was | Constantinople | 7. Emperor ______________was the first to divide the Roman Empire into Eastern and Western regions | 8. How did Constantine use the wealth of the city to make it magnificent? | He used the wealth from trade to build palaces, gov. Buildings, marketplaces, and a stadium for chariot racing. | 9. After making an impressive hajj to Mecca, He became famous and introduced the world to the Mali Empire | Mansa Musa | 10. What immense geographic feature did traders have to overcome in order to send gold from West Africa to markets along the Mediterranean? | Sahara Desert | 11. The trade good most in demand by the people of Ghana was | Salt | 12. How did iron help the Soninke people of Ghana? | Iron weapons helped them to defeat their neighbors. | 13. What was the main job of griots in West Africa? | to pass on the history of the people. | 14. What river did West Africans settle on? | Niger | 15. Under the Song, China developed which kind of system for choosing and promoting civil servants? | merit | 16. Tang Taizong brought stability to China by reviving the country's… | official bureaucracy. | 17. Japanese culture was influenced by its proximity to… | China and Korea | 18. The native religion of Japan is | Shinto | 19. Samurai code of honor | Bushido | 20. An archipelago is | a chain of islands | 21. Under the code of bushido, to whom did a samurai owe the greatest loyalty? | his lord | 22. Prince Shotoku’s Constitution was based on ______________________ and _____________________ ideas. | Buddhism and Confucianism | 23. To exclude a person from a church or religious community | excommunication | 24. Non-church or non-religious | secular | 25. Which was the most successful crusade for the European Christians? | the first | 26. Why was the fourth crusade a disgrace to the idea of the crusades? | The crusaders destroyed Constantinople and never reached the Holy Land. | 27. Why did serfs across Europe revolt against their lords as a result of the Black Death? | The lords tried to pass laws limiting the serf's movements to keep them from going to manors that offered them higher wages. | 28. Why did the inquisition punish heretics? | Heretics might persuade people to leave the Church. | 29. Why did the system of feudalism rise in Europe? | the fear that Vikings would control the region | 30. Rebellious English barons forced King John to agree and approve the ____________ in 1215. | Magna Carta | 31. What was a negative effect of the Crusades? | Jews, Muslims, and heretics were persecuted for their beliefs | 32. How did William the Conqueror transform England? | He introduced a strong feudal system with a small group of Normans in control | 33. During medieval times, which group was legally tied to the land? | serfs | 34. a Christian warrior’s rules of behavior | chivalry | 35. One of Florence's most powerful families that patronized the arts for generations was the __________ family. | Medici | 36. What was the Renaissance? | a great cultural revival that swept through Europe between the 1300s and 1500s | 37. the everyday spoken language of the people | vernacular | 38. a cultural movement in the Renaissance based on the study of classical works | humanism | 39. The view that religion need not be the center of education or other human affairs | secularism | 40. What was the cause of urban growth during the 1300s? | Peasants were drawn to towns by the promise of paid work. | 41. mathematical system for representing three-dimensional space on a flat surface | linear perspective | 42. Shakespeare's plays are still popular today because | his characters behave the way people do, even today | 43. Where did the Renaissance begin? | Florence, Itlay |
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