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. This canal is built through an isthmus and allows ships to travel easily (short-cut) between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans | Panama Canal | 2. This sea is located between Cuba and South America | Caribbean Sea | 3. This region includes Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean Islands, and South America | Latin America | 4. This River is the 2nd longest river in the world | Amazon River | 5. What physical feature causes the bowl shape of Mexico City trapping the air pollution | Sierra Madre Mountains | 6. The movement of people, agriculture, diseases and commodities is called | Colombian Exchange | 7. How did the U.S. respond after hearing about Castro's takeover of Cuba? | They placed an embargo, cutting off any sugar exports to America | 8. Why did Latinos decide to immigrate to the U.S.? | Lack of economic opportunities and war on drugs | 9. What is the main religion in Latin America? | Roman Catholicism | 10. What is Brazil's official language after being colonized? | Portuguese | 11. Three main cultural groups in Latin America. | Native Americans, Africans, Europeans | 12. What is the reason for the Transatlantic Slave Trade? | Expansion of European influence into the New World, need for cheap labor for plantation work, to replace native Americans who died. | 13. What is the cause of the loss of the Amazon Rainforest? | The need for farmland and living space to support Brazil's expansion. | 14. Which countries are used like a corridor through which drugs like cocaine are transported? | Guatemala and Mexico | 15. Why is there poverty in Latin America? | Lack of high-paying, high skilled employment opportunities, no investment and access to education | 16. How did the Soviet Union help after the embargo? | They agreed to purchase their sugarcane as well as provide weapons to Castro | 17. Why did the Mexican Government passed a series of laws concerning the manufacture and operation of automobiles;switching to cleaner-burning fuels, installing catalytic converters on new cars, requiring tougher vehicle inspections. | To help the quality of air and prevent air pollution | 18. We can see Spanish influence (culture, language and religion) in all of the countries below EXCEPT | Brazil | 19. Why do most Cubans live in urban areas | To be close to jobs like sugarcane refining | 20. Many of the enslaved indigenous people in Latin America died of disease, the Spanish and Portuguese imported slaves from | West Africa |
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