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 colonial region had the most religious diversity? | middle colonies | 2. During the debate over ratification of the United States Constitution, Antifederalists argued that a bill of rights should be added for what purpose? | protect individual liberties | 3. What are the three parts to Alexander Hamilton’s financial plan? | federal assumption of the states war debts, creation of a National Bank, imposing a high federal tariff | 4. What did the South gain from both the Compromise of 1850 and the Kansas-Nebraska Act | The use of popular sovereignty in making decisions about slavery in the territories | 5. What was Lincoln's main goal as he took office? | to preserve the Union | 6. Slavery was outlawed in the border state of Kentucky by | the ratification of the 13th Amendment | 7. The “new immigrants” to the United States between 1890 and 1915 came primarily from | southern and eastern Europe | 8. The Interstate Commerce Commission was established to | Investigate and oversee railroads | 9. The Homestead Act and land grants to railroad companies were both intended to promote | westward expansion | 10. According to the theory of laissez faire, the economy functions best when the government… | does not interfere in business | 11. The system of exchanging favors for votes was called | political machines | 12. What idea appears in both President Wilson's 14 Points and the Treaty of Versailles? | a League of Nations to prevent future wars | 13. What amendment gave African American women the right to vote? | 19th amendment | 14. What are the three causes of the stock market crash? | speculation, overproduction and laissez-faire | 15. The US sold these to finance the war effort during WWII. | War Bonds | 16. The Marshall Plan was | an American commitment to give military and economic aid to any nation resisting Communist aggression | 17. What term describes efforts to achieve more cooperative relations between the US and China? | Rapprochement | 18. The main purpose of the War Powers Act of 1973 was to | limit the presidents ability to send troops into combat abroad | 19. What was a major achievement towards peace that was accomplished during the presidency of Jimmy Carter? | negotiating the peace accord between Egypt and Israel at Camp David | 20. Under what pretense did the United States and its allies invade Iraq? | Iraq had illegal weapons of mass destruction. |
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