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. Who is the author of “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”? | Harriet Jacobs | 2. Under what name does she write “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”? | Linda Brent | 3. What type of literary genre is “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”? | A memoir | 4. How old was Harriet when she found out she was a slave? | 6 | 5. What event led to her knowledge of her being a slave? | Her mother died | 6. What was her father’s trade? | A carpenter | 7. What were the conditions for Harriet’s father being allowed to work at his trade and manage his own affairs? | He had to pay his mistress $200 a year and support himself | 8. Who did Harriet belong to, after her mother died? | Her mother’s mistress | 9. How was she treated after her mother died? | Like any other white child | 10. Did Harriet siblings, if so, who? | William | 11. Who else was an important person in Harriet’s life while she was growing up? | Her grandmother | 12. What name was Harriet’s grandmother known by? | Aunt Marthy | 13. Who did Harriet’s mother belong to? | The widow of the hotel | 14. What was Harriet’s grandmother allowed to do in order to make some money? | Sell her famous cookies and preserves | 15. When the mistress of Harriet’s grandmother dies, how much money did she owe Harriet’s grandmother? | $300 | 16. How long did Harriet live with her mother’s mistress and why? | 6 years, because she died | 17. After living with her mother’s mistress, who does Harriet belong to and why? | To her mistress’ 5 year old niece, because the child inherited her when Harriet’s mistress died | 18. After arriving at Dr. Flint’s house, who dies? | A childhood friend and Harriet’s father | 19. Why did Dr. Flint and his wife disapprove of the way Harriet’s father had raised his children | Because he raised them to think they had the same rights as any other human being and these people believed that slaves were property not people | 20. What does Dr. Flint do to Harriet’s grandmother? | He sells her |
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