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 was "awakened" during the Great Awakening | religious belief | 2. Benjamin Franklin is an example of __________ | social mobility | 3. Jonathan Edwards was an important figure in the | Great Awakening | 4. What banned all settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains? | Proclamation of 1763 | 5. What was the intent of the Proclamation of 1763? | to prevent costly conflicts with native Americans | 6. Ambitious 22 year old Colonel, defeated at Fort Necessity starting the French and Indian War | George Washington | 7. First act passed to pay off the French and Indian War debt | Sugar Act | 8. 1765, Parliament passes this which was a direct tax on different printed items | Stamp Act | 9. He helped found the Sons of Liberty in 1765 | Samuel Adams | 10. Colonists boycotted this series of acts which taxed glass, lead, paint, paper and tea in 1766 | Townshend Acts | 11. This event left Crispus Attucks and 4 others dead | Boston Massacre | 12. Colonial assemblies set this up to communicate with other colonies about British "threats to liberties" | Committees of Correspondance | 13. This event expresses colonial outrage towards the 1773 Tea Act | Boston Tea Party | 14. 1774, Parliament passes what, which shuts down the Boston Harbor and increased the quartering of troops | Intolerable Acts | 15. This formed as a response to the Intolerable Acts | First Continental Congress | 16. First fight between militia and British redcoats | Battle of Lexington |
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