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. 1600s | The trans-Atlantic slave trade begins | 2. November 6, 1860 | Abraham Lincoln is elected President of the United States | 3. December 20, 1860 – February 1, 1861 | South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Texas secede from the Union. | 4. January 31, 1865 | Congress passes the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, abolishing legal slavery throughout the United States. | 5. April 14, 1865 | Deeply disappointed by the Union victory in the Civil War, actor and Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth assassinates President Lincoln at Ford’s Theater. | 6. 1865-1877 | During the Reconstruction period following the Civil War, the U.S. enacts policies including military occupation in the South, in an attempt to fully reunite former Confederate states with the Union states. Many Southerners see this time as continuing acts of Northern aggression. | 7. March 30, 1870 | The 15th Amendment to the Constitution is ratified, giving | 8. February 23, 1875 | First “Jim Crow” laws are enacted in Tennessee, slowly imposing racial segregation across the country. The city of Atlanta will become deeply segregated, with separate rail cars, public parks, churches and schools for white and black populations. | 9. 1909 | The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is formed in New York City with the mission of ensuring the political, educational, social and economic equality of the rights of all persons. | 10. 1954 | In Brown v. The Board of Education, the Supreme Court rules that “separate is inherently unequal,” leading the way to the legal desegregation of American schools. | 11. 1955 | Rosa Parks is arrested, beginning the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the first high profile, non-violent action of the African-American Civil Rights Movement. | 12. 1957 | Arkansas Governor Orval Rubus uses National Guard to block nine African-American students from attending Little Rock High School; following a court order, President Eisenhower sends in federal troops to ensure compliance. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Leads the Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott. | 13. 1958 | The Hebrew Benevolent Congregation’s temple in Atlanta, Georgia, is bombed. Rabbi Jacob Rothschild was a vocal opponent of segregation. Five arrests were made; though no one was ever convicted, the man who called the bomb into the press claimed to be working on behalf of “The Confederate Underground.” | 14. 1960 | Four African American college students begin sit-ins at a lunch counter of a Greensboro, North Carolina restaurant where African American patrons are not served. | 15. 1963 | Protests against segregation in Birmingham, Alabama meet with severe police retaliation led by Sheriff "Bull" Connors. A church bombing in Birmingham leaves four African American girls dead. A Civil Rights leader (Medgar Evers) is killed by a sniper. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., delivers his “I Have a Dream” speech at the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. | 16. 1964 | U.S. Congress passes the Civil Rights Act of 1964, forbidding racial discrimination in all public accommodations and employment, resulting in the end of Jim Crow laws. To achieve this, they spend 75 DAYS in filibuster. Three civil rights workers disappear in Mississippi after being stopped for speeding; the bodies are found buried six weeks later. | 17. 1965 | After two civil rights workers are killed in Selma, Alabama; a march from Selma to Montgomery is held to demand protection for voting rights. Malcolm X is assassinated. | 18. 1968 | Dr. Martin Luther King is assassinated in Memphis, sparking riots throughout the country. |
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