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. He became the first and only President of the Confederacy. | TBD | 2. Leading Confederate General. In 1862, he tried to invade the North. He did a good job of keeping his invasion a secret until Union soldiers found a copy of his battle plans in an abandoned camp. The Union stopped his invasion at the Battle of Antietam. | TBD | 3. Southern leaders defended slavery by arguing for these. Those who preached this believed that the federal government could not tell states what to do. They believed that the Founding Fathers wanted the states to have most of the governing power not the central government. Supporters of this saw federal attempts to limit slavery as unlawful acts. | TBD | 4. The first federal relief agency in US history. It provided clothes, medical attention, food, education and even land to African Americans coming out of slavery. It helped many African Americans throughout the South, but lacking support, it ended in 1869. | TBD | 5. On April 9, 1865 Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant here. Although some fighting continued afterwards, this effectively ended the war. | TBD | 6. Southerners did not want him as president because they feared he would seek to end slavery. Shortly after he won the election, South Carolina left the Union. Other states soon followed. | TBD | 7. The bloodiest battle of the entire war. It occurred in early June 1863. Lee’s Confederate Army met the army of Union General George Meade. Roughly 50,000 men died or were wounded. The Union won the battle, ending Lee’s last attempt to invade the North. | TBD | 8. Appointed overall commander of the entire Union army in 1864 by Lincoln. | TBD | 9. Name of Sherman’s march from Atlanta to Savannah. Sherman’s army burned buildings, destroyed rail lines, set fire to factories and demolished bridges. | TBD | 10. Took place in 1859. The raid on the United States arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virginia. The plan was to give weapons to slaves who could use them to fight for freedom. The plan failed when Union troops surrounded the arsenal. The government hanged the leader a few days later. | TBD | 11. In 1861, the Confederates of South Carolina opened fire on this Fort, beginning the Civil War. | TBD | 12. The capturing, selling, and ownership of black Africans. | TBD | 13. Lee’s most gifted general. He helped Lee win key battles, often leading his troops to cover many miles of territory in a single day. He died of pneumonia after his own troops shot him by accident at the Battle of Bull Run. | TBD | 14. Guaranteed all men the right to vote, no matter what their race. | TBD | 15. In charge of Grant’s western Union forces. In May, he began an invasion of Georgia, capturing Atlanta in September of 1864. A Union General who captured Atlanta in 1864. He burned and destroyed cities, farms and industries in Georgia as he marched from Atlanta to Savannah. | TBD | 16. Ratified by Congress in 1865, it made slavery illegal. | 13th Amendment | 17. Sherman is said to have burned this Georgia city during his campaign. This campaign for this city also increased support for President Lincoln in the North. After the campaign for this city, northerners believed the war could be won and re-elected Lincoln. | TBD | 18. Made African Americans citizens. | TBD | 19. African Americans farmed land owned by white landowners. In exchange, they were given a place to live and a small portion of the crop. Unable to pay their debts, they often remained chained to the land and forced to provide labor for white landowners. | TBD | 20. Laws passed by southern states to limit the rights, such as the right to vote or own property, of newly freed slaves. | TBD | 21. A fictional story that showed the cruelty of slavery. The story made people angry and abolitionists became even more determined to end slavery. They believed that all slaves were treated as badly as those in the story. Slave owners believed that the story did not present the truth. | TBD | 22. Became President after the assassination of President Lincoln. | TBD | 23. Who assassinated President Lincoln? | John Wilkes Booth | 24. What did southerners call northerners who moved to the South after the Civil War? | TBD | 25. Who became the first elected African American senator? | TBD |
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