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. What was the Renaissance? | a time of achievements in art, literature, and learning | 2. Cosimo and Lorenzo de"Medici were patrons of | artists | 3. When did the Renaissance begin? | 1300s | 4. Which city was considered the cradle of the Renaissance? | Florence | 5. The Pope is? | the head of the Roman Catholic Church | 6. Which city is built on more that 100 islands? | Vience | 7. Where did the Renaissance begin? | Italy | 8. The great cathedral in the center of Florence is? | the Duomo | 9. Which industries was Florence chiefly dependent on? | Wool and banking | 10. How did Venice become wealthy? | Trade | 11. The most important church in Roam is? | St. Peter's Basilica | 12. During the Renaissance, Italy was? | divided into many separate states | 13. Which invention accelerated the Renaissance? | Printing press | 14. During the Renaissance, the status of artist | Improved | 15. Which was the most powerful family in Florence? | Medici | 16. Which artistic technique made paintings look 3-D? | Perspective |
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