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. As a team your task is to locate the 5 QR Codes around the building. Team with the most correct answers wins. GO! | may the force be with you! | 2. 2. What did the DARPA do in December 1969?http://www.brainpop.com/technology/computersandinternet/internet/ | ARPA (Advanced Research Projects Agency) goes online in December, connecting four major U.S. universities. Designed for research, education, and government organizations, it provides a communications network linking the country in the event that a military attack destroys conventional communications systems. | 3. 3. What did Leonard Kleinrock of MIT develop? | Kleinrock developed the theory of packet switching, which was to form the basis of Internet connections. | 4. 4. Which elected official has done more to support the development and growth of the Internet from the 1970s to the present? | Al Gore | 5. 5. Who connected a Massachusetts computer with a California computer in 1965 and what did it prove? | 1965 working with Thomas Merrill, Roberts connected the TX-2 computer in Mass. to the Q-32 in California with a low speed dial-up telephone line creating the first (however small) wide-area computer network ever built. The result of this experiment was the realization that the time-shared computers could work well together, running programs and retrieving data as necessary on the remote machine, but that the circuit switched telephone system was totally inadequate for the job. | 6. 6. When and by whom was email developed? | Electronic mail is introduced in 1972 by Ray Tomlinson, a Cambridge, Mass., computer scientist. He uses the @ to distinguish between the sender's name and network name in the email address. | 7. 7. What is TCP/IP and when was it developed? | Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) is designed and in 1983 it becomes the standard for communicating between computers over the Internet. One of these protocols, FTP (File Transfer Protocol), allows users to log onto a remote computer, list the files on that computer, and download files from that computer. | 8. 8. Why is Usenet, established in 1979, important to the Internet today? | Newsgroups USENET still thrives today. Almost any topic now has a discussion group. | 9. 9.What did Archie and Wide Area Information Server provide to telnet users? | 1990 ability to search and navigate telnet precursor to browsers. | 10. 10. When was the word Internet used for the first time? | 1982 | 11. 11. When did Quantum Computer Services debut and what did it offer? | 1985 America Online, debuts. It offers email, electronic bulletin boards, news, and other information. | 12. 12. What is the date of the first virus on the Internet and what was it called? | 1988 Internet Worm | 13. 13. What major event happened in 1989 to catapult the Internet out beyond universities? | WWW established and debuts as the first provider | 14. 14. In 1991 Gopher was invented. What did it provide? | point and Click | 15. 15. Who was the first state leader to send an email? | Queen Elizabeth 1976 | 16. 16. When was the programming language Java released? | 1995 | 17. 17. By 1996 how many people are using the Internet? | approximately 45 million | 18. 18. What Internet venture was launched in 1999 by Shawn Fanning? | Napster | 19. 19. How many people world wide were using the Internet in 2002? | Worldwide there are 544.2 million users. | 20. 20. When is Apple iTunes Music Store opened?Why is it significant? | Apple iTunes Music Store, which allows people | 21. 21. How many website are online in 2006? | 92 million websites online. | 22. 22. When is Youtube Launched? What types of videos were first uploaded? | 2005 | 23. 23. What is the World Wide Web Consortium and why was it established in 1994? | The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international community to led web to full potential and sets standards so can function smoothly | 24. 24. Robert Metcalfe invented the Ethernet in the 1970’s. What was it and is it still used today? | The Ethernet is a system for connecting computers within a building using hardware running from machine to machine. YES | 25. 25.In 2010 the US Senate authorizes US Dept of Homeland Security to seize what type of websites? | Those suspected of piracy | 26. 26. Browsers sparked the Internet boom of the 1990s. Name the first two browsers. | 1990 WorldWideWeb (Nexus) and `93 Mosaic (Netscape) |
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