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. ___ converted to Buddhism and ruled with non-violence and religious freedom. | Asoka | 2. ___ Buddhism is the original form and does not include the worship of Buddha as a deity. | Theravada | 3. As Buddhism spread the religion changed and included the worship of Buddha and the reverence of Bodhisattvas. This is called ___ Buddhism. | Mahayana | 4. Shi Huang di unified Chinese culture by: | standardizing the language, coins, weights and measures, … | 5. Legalists burnt Confucian texts and scholars during the Qin Dynasty because __. | didn’t want people to think for themselves or challenge the emperor’s authority | 6. Women in the Han Dynasty ___. | had marriages arranged, were subject to a man’s authority, generally were secluded | 7. What was used to find qualified individuals to work in the civil service? | Exams on Confucian texts | 8. Spread the language, the use of the stick and hole agriculture, and the use of iron was diffused during the ___ Migrations. | Bantu | 9. ____ ships were popularized in the Indian Ocean Trade System because they could sail against the wind. | Dhow | 10. Sailors in the IOTS had to deal with the seasonal winds called _____. | Monsoons |
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