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. 1.Who wrote the Declaration of Independence? | Thomas Jefferson | 2. 2. Thomas Paine wrote a pamphlet called? | Common Sense | 3. 3. Who took a cannon to Fort Ticonderoga and pointed it at a British General? | Henry Knox | 4. 4. Who was the British General that woke up to a cannon in his face? | William Howe | 5. 5. A __________ is someone who turns against his or her country. | traitor | 6. 6. Those who believed the colonists were right are referred to as? | Patriots | 7. 7. Those who believed Parliament, or the British, were right are referred to as? | Loyalists | 8. 8. On what day and year was the Declaration of Independence signed? | July 4, 1776 | 9. 9. Who rode a horse to inform people of Lexington that the British had troops in America? | Paul Revere | 10. 10 . What American city had both a famous massacre and a famous tea party? | Boston |
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