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. Large groups of travelers who were traveling through the Rocky Mountains were called? | Wagon Trains | 2. 2. What two things did Native Americans give American travelers to help them move west? | vegetables and buffalo meat | 3. 3. Who led the Mormons on their long march to Utah? | Brigham Young | 4. 4. Fur trappers in the west were called? | Mountain Men | 5. 5. Chimney Rock is located in which state? | Nebraska | 6. 6. People traveling to California to become rich were referred to as? | forty-niners | 7. 7. What did California outlaw that Southern states did not? | Slavery |
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