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. Corruption in the RR that stole $23 million from stockholders | Credit Mobilier | 2. Worked on the Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railroads | Irish and Chinese | 3. The Golden Spike location | Promontory Point, Utah | 4. Pullman Palace Cars | Train cars that hall people | 5. Created in 1883 to standardized railroad times | National Time Zones | 6. over inflated stock | Stock Watering | 7. A group of supposed competitors who work together | Pool | 8. Supreme Court case on RR and Commerce | Wabash | 9. ICC | Interstate Commerce Commission | 10. Person associated with Vertical Integration | Andrew Carnegie | 11. Person associated with Horizontal Integration | John D. Rockefeller | 12. Person associated with Interlocking Directorates | J. P Morgan | 13. The most talented and fittest of people should run a business | Social Darwinism | 14. Some people are destined to become rich and help poor people | Gospel of Wealth | 15. Acres of Diamonds | Poor People make them selves poor, rich people make themselves rich |
Corruption in the RR that stole $23 million from stockholders&choe=UTF-8
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Worked on the Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railroads&choe=UTF-8
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The Golden Spike location&choe=UTF-8
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Pullman Palace Cars&choe=UTF-8
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Created in 1883 to standardized railroad times&choe=UTF-8
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over inflated stock&choe=UTF-8
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A group of supposed competitors who work together&choe=UTF-8
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Supreme Court case on RR and Commerce&choe=UTF-8
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ICC&choe=UTF-8
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Person associated with Vertical Integration&choe=UTF-8
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Person associated with Horizontal Integration&choe=UTF-8
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Person associated with Interlocking Directorates&choe=UTF-8
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The most talented and fittest of people should run a business&choe=UTF-8
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Some people are destined to become rich and help poor people&choe=UTF-8
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Acres of Diamonds&choe=UTF-8
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