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 year did the Civil War begin? | 1861 | 2. Who was President during the Civil War? | Abraham Lincoln | 3. Who raided Harper's Ferry? | John Brown | 4. Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin? | Harriet Beecher Stowe | 5. What was the first battle fought in the Civil War? | Fort Sumter | 6. Who was Commander of the Confederacy? | Robert E. Lee | 7. Who was the Union General? | Ulysses S Grant | 8. Who was the President of the Confederacy during the Civil War? | Jefferson Davis | 9. Who was the Union General that led the march through Atlanta? | William Sherman | 10. What was the amendment that ended slavery? | Thirteenth Amendment | 11. What was the amendment that declared the states could not limit the rights of citizens? | Fourteenth Amendment | 12. What amendment gave all men the right to vote? | Fifteenth Amendment | 13. What was the name of the organization that provided food, clothing, medical care, and legal advice to poor blacks and whites? | Freedmen's Bureau | 14. What was the system in which landowners let poor farmers use small areas of their land, and in return, the farmers gave the landowners a share of the crop? | sharecropping | 15. These laws segregated African Americans from other Americans. | Jim Crow Laws | 16. What state was the Battle of Gettysburg fought in? | Pennsylvania | 17. What state is Fort Sumter in? | South Carolina | 18. This is called a war between two groups within a nation? | Civil War | 19. What event began the Civil War? | the attack on Fort Sumter | 20. This document ended slavery. | Emancipation Proclamation | 21. This famous speech began "Four score and seven years ago". | Gettysburg Address | 22. This famous abolitionist helped many slaves escape to freedom. | Harriet Tubman |
What year did the Civil War begin?&choe=UTF-8
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Who was President during the Civil War?&choe=UTF-8
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Who raided Harper's Ferry?&choe=UTF-8
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Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?&choe=UTF-8
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What was the first battle fought in the Civil War?&choe=UTF-8
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Who was Commander of the Confederacy?&choe=UTF-8
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Who was the Union General?&choe=UTF-8
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Who was the President of the Confederacy during the Civil War?&choe=UTF-8
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Who was the Union General that led the march through Atlanta?&choe=UTF-8
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What was the amendment that ended slavery?&choe=UTF-8
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What was the amendment that declared the states could not limit the rights of citizens?&choe=UTF-8
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What amendment gave all men the right to vote?&choe=UTF-8
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What was the name of the organization that provided food, clothing, medical care, and legal advice to poor blacks and whites?&choe=UTF-8
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What was the system in which landowners let poor farmers use small areas of their land, and in return, the farmers gave the landowners a share of the crop?&choe=UTF-8
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These laws segregated African Americans from other Americans.&choe=UTF-8
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What state was the Battle of Gettysburg fought in?&choe=UTF-8
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What state is Fort Sumter in?&choe=UTF-8
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This is called a war between two groups within a nation?&choe=UTF-8
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What event began the Civil War?&choe=UTF-8
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This document ended slavery.&choe=UTF-8
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This famous speech began "Four score and seven years ago".&choe=UTF-8
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This famous abolitionist helped many slaves escape to freedom.&choe=UTF-8
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