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 term for pieces of a machine that are exactly alike and are easily replaced/switched | Interchangeable Parts | 2. A ruler with absolute power | Dictator | 3. A System of gates for lowering and raising water levels for boats to travel through a canal | lock | 4. The nickname for miners that went to California | Forty-Niners | 5. To cross a river | Ford | 6. Taking over land or adding it onto your country | Annex | 7. A person who is one of the first to inhabit or explore an area | Pioneer | 8. A machine that removes the seed from cotton | Cotton Gin | 9. The result or outcome of an action | Consequence | 10. Giving up land or territory to someone else | Cession | 11. The process of adopting a different culture in order to fit in with that group | Assimilate | 12. When American sailors were kidnapped and forced to work in British warships | Impressment | 13. Man made river to connect two or more natural bodies of water | Canal | 14. Strong pride in your country | Nationalism | 15. The belief that the U.S. was meant to stretch all the way across North America | Manifest Destiny |
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