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. Remembers what transportation improvements had the biggest effect on Western farmers | Roads and Canals enabled western farmers to get their products to eastern markets. | 2. Can define Industrial Revolution | Factory machines replaced hand tools, and large-scale manufacturing replaced farming as the main form or work. | 3. Knows the impact of railroad construction | Railroads led to economic growth after the east and west coasts were joined. | 4. Remembers the effect of the Missouri Compromise | It kept the balance of power in the Senate between the slave states and free states | 5. Can recall the name of the invention and the inventor who improved communication | Samuel F. B. Morse and his telegraph | 6. Remembers two factors that led to America’s economic growth | Railroads and canals made it possible to transport goods more efficiently. | 7. Can recall 2 farming improvements | John Deere’s steel plow and Cyrus McCormick’s reaper | 8. Can define Nationalism | A feeling of pride, loyalty, and protectiveness toward your country | 9. Can name 3 actions of the American System | 1)Est. a protective tariff 2)Est. a national bank 3)Improve the country’s transportation systems | 10. Can define Sectionalism | A loyalty to the interests of your own region or section of the country | 11. Knows the name of the man who promoted the American System | Henry Clay from Kentucky | 12. Knows the effect of economic growth (Per Capita Income) in America 1770-1840 | Industrialization led to urbanization (growth of cities) | 13. Knows who’s invention of what made river transportation more efficient | Robert Fulton’s steamboat | 14. Remembers the effects of Eli Whitney’s cotton gin. | 1)Westward expansion 2)Cotton exports increased 3)Native Americans driven off more land 4)Slavery increased | 15. Can state two inventions by Eli Whitney | Cotton gin and interchangeable parts | 16. Can recall the two cities connected by the Erie Canal | New York City and Buffalo, New York |
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