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.
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1. What does Islam mean in Arabic? | 2. In what form of art can the greatest cultural blending of the Muslim world be seen? | 3. What division of Islam believes that only a relative of Muhammad is qualified to be a caliph? | 4. The academic subject developed by al-Khwarizmi and originally called al-jabr is known by what name today? | 5. Toward what city do Muslims pray? | 6. What are the Five Pillars of Islam? | 7. Why was the Hijrah important? | 8. Why did the Muslim way of praying lead to advances in astronomy? | 9. What system of law regulates the family life, moral conduct, and the business and community life of Muslims? | 10. Optics, mathematics and medicine were all advanced during the Muslim Empire. | 11. What is the best Muslim model for proper living? | 12. Who did Muslims consider the "people of the book"? | 13. The "rightly guided" caliphs based their leadership on the Qur'an and Muhammad's actions. | 14. What was the main difference between the Sunni and Shi'a branches of Islam? | 15. The Qur'an and what other work form the shari'a, or body of Islamic law? | 16. What led to internal conflict in Islam after the death of Muhammad? | 17. The Justinian Code was the body of civil law created for the Byzantine Empire. | 18. During the 8th-century dispute over icons, the Pope supported the use of icons. | 19. Who invented the alphabet that is used by many Slavic languages? | 20. What title did Ivan III use instead of being called king or emperor? | 21. To prop up their shaky empire, the Byzantines used diplomacy. | 22. Russian culture was strongly influenced by the creation of the Cyrillic alphabet. | 23. Orthodox Christianity became the state religion of the Byzantine Empire. | 24. What was the achievement for which Charlemagne is most remembered? | 25. According to the code of chivalry, a knight fought for what three things? | 26. What were the results of the Treaty of Verdun? | 27. What was the bargain made between a lord and a vassal? | 28. Why was the interdict an effective weapon for a pope to use against a king? | 29. What issues did Pope Gregory VII and the German emperor Henry IV fight over? | 30. What were the main difference between the original Roman Empire and the Holy Roman Empire of FredericK I? | 31. The Concordat of Worms resolved a power struggle between which two groups? | 32. What was the significance of Pope Leo III crowning Charlemagne emperor? | 33. What led to the development of the code of chivalry? | 34. What was the chief goal of the Crusades? | 35. What problem was identified by Church reformers during the Middle Ages? | 36. What was the effect of the three-field system? | 37. What did the Magna Carta guarantee? | 38. What was the major cause of the Great Schism? | 39. What was the name of the legislative body of medieval England? | 40. During the later Middle Ages, where were most serfs likely to search for freedom? | 41. Which group was most responsible for the spread of the bubonic plague to Europe? | 42. What was the central issue of the Hundred Years' War? | 43. What was the purpose of the Reconquista? | 44. Whose rights did the Magna Carta originally intend to defend? | 45. What did the decisions of the English royal courts of justice create? | 46. How was the Great Schism finally resolved? | 47. What were John Wycliffe's main complaints about the Church? | 48. What was the most important effect of the Hundred Years' War? | 49. What are the traits that characterize Gothic cathedral architecture? | 50. What was one negative effect of the Crusades that has continued to the present? | 51. What was at stake in the Battle of Hastings? | 52. What issue led to both the Magna Carta and the establishment of Parliament? | 53. Why were Europeans able to begin studying ancient Greek works? | 54. What did the devastation caused by the bubonic plague contribute to? | 55. What was the chief means of social and political organization in African stateless societies? | 56. What did Africans mainly provide in the trade between East Africa and Asia? | 57. The Swahili language developed from a mixture of what languages? | 58. How did the rulers of Ghana grow rich? | 59. What does it mean if an African society is matrilineal? | 60. In the stateless societies of Africa, how were conflicts most commonly settled? | 61. The Maya based their calendar on careful observations of the planets, sun, and moon. | 62. The Maya wrote on a bark-paper book known as a codex. | 63. The main demand that the Incan state placed on its subjects was the mita, which was a tribute of what? | 64. Which groups of people made up the noble class in Aztec society? | 65. What led to the development of the Maya calendar? | 66. What were the influences of the Toltecs on Aztec civilization? | 67. What best describes the Incan system of government? | 68. The Aztec’s decline was caused in part by a conflict over religious practices. | 69. The Mayan calendar was based on astronomical study. | 70. The Incan welfare system increased the loyalty of conquered peoples. | 71. The Inca and the Romans were similar because both were skilled engineers. | 72. What was the Renaissance a rebirth of? | 73. The study of classical texts caused humanists to focus on what subject? | 74. For what is the Medici family famous? | 75. What were Desiderius Erasmus and Thomas More? | 76. What was the first full-sized book Gutenberg printed? | 77. In what way did Leonardo da Vinci represent the Renaissance Man? | 78. Luther protested the practice of selling indulgences. What was that practice? | 79. Who declared himself the head of the English Church? | 80. What were John Calvin's major teachings? | 81. What kind of person represented the ideal of the "Renaissance man"? | 82. How did Italy's location help it become the birthplace of the Renaissance? | 83. What were the important effects of the invention of the printing press? | 84. What were the reasons for the Reformation? | 85. What were Luther's main beliefs? | 86. What was the main reason for Henry VIII's split with the Roman Catholic Church? | 87. “The Church's interpretation of the Bible was final” was the major idea agreed upon at the Council of Trent. | 88. Which idea of Luther's most influenced John Calvin? | 89. Which European country was the leader in developing and applying 15th century sailing innovations? | 90. Why was the caravel an important development in navigation? | 91. Who captained the first European ship to sail around the tip of Africa, now known as the Cape of Good Hope? | 92. What were Europeans' main motives for making voyages of exploration? | 93. How did Prince Henry of Portugal influence exploration? | 94. What was the purpose of the Treaty of Tordesillas signed by Portugal and Spain? |
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