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 is Manifest Destiny? | the belief that it is the right and duty of all Americans to spread West | 2. What did the Plains Indians rely on most for their survival?2 | The Buffalo2 | 3. Give three examples of what Plains Indians used the buffalo for3 | examples3 | 4. What other animal did Plains Indians grow to rely on?4 | Horses | 5. Give three reasons why Americans migrated West5 | Economic depression5 | 6. What was the American depression of 1837?6 | Banks collapsed6 | 7. Name a famous tragedy in the American west history7 | the Donner party7 | 8. Which Christian group migrated West to escape persecution?8 | the Mormons8 | 9. Name the Mormon leader whose leadership led to Mormon success in the West9 | Brigham Young9 | 10. In what year was the California Gold rush?10 | 184910 | 11. In what year did the development of the Railways begin?11 | 186111 | 12. Who were the Homesteaders?12 | Americans migrated to reside on the plains12 | 13. Name two positive impacts of the railway in the development of the West?13 | law and order, better trade links13 | 14. Name two negative impacts of the railway in the development of the West?14 | train robberies, disrupted buffalo migration routes14 | 15. When was the Fort Laramie Treaty signed, and what was it?15 | 1851, peace treaty between Plains Indians and White migrants15 | 16. Give one way tensions developed between Plains Indians and white migrants?16 | mistrust as a result of not understanding cultural differences16 | 17. Why did the cattle industry develop after 1865?17 | increase in beef demands, railways made it easier to transport cattle to the North and East 17 | 18. What was Abilene specifically in 1867?18 | A cow town18 | 19. what happened between 1861-1864?19 | The American civil war19 | 20. Name two causes for tension between American migrants themselves20 | claim jumping20 |
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