QR Challenge: Miss Owst's History Treasure Hunt

Created using the ClassTools QR Treasure Hunt Generator

Teacher Notes

A. Prior to the lesson:

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

• Download a QR reader (e.g. I-Nigma | NeoReader | Kaywa) onto their mobile devices
• Bring these devices into the lesson.

3. Print out the QR codes.

4. Cut them out and place them around your class / school.

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B. The lesson:

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!

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C. TIPS / OTHER IDEAS

4. A detailed case study in how to set up a successful QR Scavenger Hunt using this tool can be found here.

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Questions / Answers (teacher reference)

Question	Answer
1. Who closed down the monasteries?	Henry Viii
2. Who was killed by Henry II?	Thomas Beckett2
3. In what year did the Black Death come to England?	13483
4. Who was killed at the Battle of Stamford Bridge?	Harald Hardrada4
5. What part of France was William I Duke of?	Normandy5
6. What was the first type of castle the Normans built?	Motte and Bailey
7. Which famous charitable bandit did King John despise?	Robin Hood
8. Which fleet did Elizabeth I defeat?	Spanish Armada8
9. How many wives did Henry VIII have?	six9
10. Who was the leader of the peasant's revolt?	Wat Tyler10
11. Who was at the bottom of the feudal system?	Peasants11
12. Who signed the Magna Carta?	King John12
13. In what city was the famous massacre of the Jews?	York13
14. What is chronology?	A study of time14
15. What is an anachronism?	Something in the wrong time period15
16. What book for taxation did William I bring in?	Domesday book16
17. Who was shot in the eye at the Battle of Hastings?	Harold Godwinson17
18. What famous embroidery commemorates the Battle of Hastings?	Bayeux tapestry18
19. What rhyme tells you what happened to Henry Viii's wives?	DBDDBS
20. What is the best subject in the world?	History20

 

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