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. A place where the coins for the country are made | mint | 2. To separate from the Union | secede | 3. States wedged between the North and South. Slave states that never joined the Confederacy | border states | 4. Strategy to hold cotton back from Great Britain to get them to join in the war | cotton diplomacy | 5. People who are killed, wounded, captured, or missing in a military conflict | casualties | 6. Person who is working to end slavery | abolitionist | 7. The branch of government that is responsible for making laws | Legislative | 8. Write the name of each person in your group. You cannot ask them | various |
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