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. Explain life in Africa before Europeans came | There were varied governments, some cities and villages, nomadic hunters and artists. | 2. Why did Europeans first become interested in Africa | As trade route purposes | 3. Europeans later saw Africa as a continent full of what | They saw Africa was a continent full of natural resources and mineral wealth | 4. What is Imperialism | Imperialism is a system where a strong country takes wealth and raw materials from another country. | 5. Why is the end of the 19th century was called the Age of Imperialism | That is when European countries competed for land and power throughout Asia and Africa. | 6. What is nationalism | a strong sense of pride in one's nation, | 7. What was the Scramble for Africa | When European countries were all trying to take parts of Africa to make colonies | 8. What was the Berlin Conference | A meeting between US leaders and European leaders- they were dividing Africa among the European countries in order to prevent wars | 9. After the Berlin Conference, who had the most land in Africa | Great Britain | 10. The creation of boundaries throughout Africa had a negative effect on the people by doing what two things | The creation of these borders had a negative impact on Africa’s political and social structures by either dividing groups that wanted to be together or combining ethnic groups that were enemies. | 11. By the mid-twentieth century Africans began to demand _____ | Independence from European countries | 12. What was the main goal of the Pan-African Movement | To bring African people together for the common cause of being independent | 13. The Pan-African movement helped lead to ____ for African nations | Independence | 14. What is apartheid | A series of restrictive segregationist laws | 15. In the South African language, Afrikaans, what does apartheid mean | Apartness | 16. What was life like for blacks and whites under apartheid | Blacks and whites were segregated. Whites became wealthier and they were allowed to participate in government. Blacks were not allowed to participate in the government, they were poor, had to have passports and had to live in special homelands. | 17. What did the Bantu Authority Act setup in South Africa | Homelands for black South Africans | 18. What was the ANC and what did they do | African National Congress; fought against Apartheid | 19. Eventually the South African government did what to the ANC | Declared the ANC illegal and began arresting members | 20. Who was born July 18, 1918 | Nelson Mandela | 21. After becoming a lawyer, Mandela, became a prominent leader in the ANC and led _______ | Protest against Apartheid | 22. Who did Mandela admire and why | Gandhi because he led peaceful and not-violent | 23. Explain what happened at Sharpeville and how did that change the attitude of the ANC | It started out as a peaceful protest against apartheid; the South African police began to fire at the protesters, 69 were killed; the ANC began to advocate more violent protest | 24. What happened to Mandela in the early 1960s | He was arrested and charged with trying to overthrow the government; he was sentenced to life in prison. | 25. Who came to power in South Africa in 1989 and what did he immediately start working on | F.W. de Klerk; he began working to end apartheid | 26. What was life like for Mandela on Robben Island | He had to do hard labor every day; he was only allowed one visitor every 6th moths. | 27. In 1990, de Klerk did what | He let Mandela out of prison | 28. What was given in 1993, who was it given to, and why | The Nobel Peace Prize was given to de Klerk and Mandela for peacefully moving the country into a nonracial democracy | 29. What occurred in 1994 and what was the outcome | South Africa’s first election that was open to all races. Mandela became the countries first black president | 30. Are there still issues in South Africa today and if so what are they | Yes; There is still economic inequality and poverty throughout the country. |
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