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 revival of African-American art, literature, and music in the 1920s called? | Harlem Renaissance | 2. What was the first representative assembly in Virginia? | House of Burgesses | 3. What was the Union’s Strategy in the Civil War called? | Anaconda Plan | 4. What happened to 120,000 Japanese-Americans during the 1940s? | They were place in internment camps Kellogg – Briand Pact | 5. What government agency helped former slaves and poor whites after the Civil War? | Freedman’s Bureau | 6. What was the immediate cause of the US entry into WW I? | Zimmerman letter | 7. What presidents participated in the first televised debates? | Kennedy / Nixon | 8. What was General Sherman’s battle from Atlanta to Savannah called? | March to the Sea | 9. What one word described American foreign policy in the 1920s and 1930s? | Isolationism | 10. What were “perestroika” and “glasnost”? (USSR 1980s) | Openness/ restructuring of the economy | 11. What hurt the Midwestern farmer in the 1930s? | Drought and wind storms (the dust bowl) | 12. What was the site of the first convention for women’s rights? | Seneca Falls, New York | 13. What was the gradual withdrawal of US troops from Vietnam called? | Vietnamization | 14. What organization was created in 1949 by western democracies, the US, and Canada? | NATO | 15. What document formed the government set up by the Pilgrims? | Mayflower Compact | 16. What type of warfare did the colonist use against the British in the American Revolution? | Guerrilla | 17. What was the major weakness of the Articles of Confederation? | Not enough power was vested in the federal government | 18. What was the purpose of the Bill of Rights? | To protect fundamental rights |
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