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. 1. the House of Representatives | What decided the election of 1800? | 2. 2. the War of 1812 | The Reverend Gruber offered this blessing during which war? | 3. 3. Battle of Tippecanoe | Tecumseh joined forces with Great Britain after the | 4. 4. judicial review | The Supreme Court reviewing and ruling on acts of other branches of the government is called | 5. 5. Baltimore, Maryland | In which harbor did Francis Scott Key, the author of this song, watch anxiously through the night of September 13–14 the bombardment from Fort McHenry? | 6. 6. The Louisiana Territory | Which country is Lewis referring to in this excerpt from his journals? | 7. 7. Oliver Hazard Perry | Which commander destroyed the British naval forces on Lake Erie? | 8. 8. impressment | Which British practice was a violation of neutral rights? | 9. 9. Clay and Calhoun | The leading War Hawks were | 10. 10. to establish ties with Native-Americans | What was one of the goals of Lewis and Clark’s expedition? | 11. 11. Tecumseh's brother and ally | prophet | 12. 12. President during the War of 1812 | James Madison | 13. 13. attacked Prophetstown | William Henry Harrison | 14. 14. United States Navy captain | Stephen Decatur | 15. 15. powerful Shawnee leader | Tecumseh | 16. 16. A group of Federalists in Massachusetts plotted to secede from the Union because they feared any new states created from the territory would be Republican | effect of Louisiana Purchase | 17. 17. They sent hundreds of letters to leading citizens and newspapers to make their views public | campaign of 1800 | 18. 18. regretful | how Burr felt after duel with Hamilton |
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