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 emergence & migration of Homo Sapiens from Africa lasted? | 400,000-100,000 years | 2. A man-made object is considered? | artifact | 3. Today, scientists use this method to determine how old human remains are? | carbon-dating | 4. Throughout existence, human have overcame the? | environment | 5. What helped paleolithic humans communicate? | oral language | 6. Because paleolithic humans didn't settle, they sought shelter in? | caves | 7. This caused humans to settle down permanently? | farming | 8. Because farming takes time, early humans specialized in metallurgy, religion & weaving. A term known as? | specialization of labor | 9. Give 3 reasons why humans settled in River Valleys? | rich soil, irrigation, protection | 10. Unlike the Nile, flooding in Mesopotamia was? | unpredictable | 11. In China, this gave just rulers power? | mandate of heaven | 12. Which Indian empire created veterinary clinics & hospitals? | Mauryan | 13. Buddhism arrived in China due to trade and...? | missionaries | 14. After the Persian Wars, Athens entered its...? | Golden Age | 15. This philosopher taught Alexander the Great? | Aristotle | 16. Greek civilization crumbled due to this war? | Peloponessian | 17. After the Punic Wars, Rome gained dominance over? | the Mediterranean | 18. For 500 years, Rome used this type of democracy? | Republic | 19. In Rome, where were Senators elected? | Assembly | 20. Aside from war, give two other reasons for the Roman Republic's collapse? | inflation, increased slavery, over-population | 21. Early Christian doctrine was written by...? | Church Councils | 22. Aside from trade, how else did Jesus's message spread? | Apostles | 23. In Islam, this mean struggle? | Jihad | 24. Islam spread to this area by the later Caliphs? | North Africa & Spain | 25. Justinian based his code of law from where? | western Rome | 26. The Early Middle Ages is also known as the? | Medieval Period | 27. The Germanic invasions had what effect on trade? | disrupted it | 28. Politics is Europe was guided by...? | feudalism | 29. How did trade lead to the age of discovery? | demand for goods, lands, navigational tools | 30. Shintoism co-exists with which other Asian philosophy? | Buddhism |
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