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. E. To find the QR code with your first question, you need to find the mural with India’s most sacred animal. | This code stays in the room. | 2. E1. The British East India Company, which was a business NOT a government organization, controlled how much of India by the mid-1800s?{Hint: You will find guidance to your next code in the helping hands} | 3/5[Put this code by the cow in the mural in ag wing.] | 3. E2. Define sati AND tell what the British policy was regarding it.{Listen to this audio clue to next code’s location http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEZtCThwaXE } | High-class Hindu widows throw themselves on their husband's funeral fire; British policy outlawed this practice [Put this code in the helping hands mural outside of guidance area.] | 4. E3. How did British rule of India change as a result of the Sepoy Rebellion of 1857? {Your final code is in Neil Armstrong’s favorite stairway.} | The Sepoy Rebellion left a bitter legacy of fear, hatred, and mistrust on both sides. In 1858, India was put directly under British control (no longer under the East India Company’s control). More British troops were sent to occupy India. Taxes were increased to pay for the occupying forces. Plus side, the “reforms” that angered Hindus and Muslims were slowed, but Britain continued to develop India for its own economic gain. [Put this code along the jungle stairway.] | 5. E4. Describe the benefits of British rule in EACH of the following three areas—legal system, education, transportation. | Legal system—promoted justice regardless of class/caste Education—upper class sent sons to British schools for training to be in civil service or military posts Transportation—impressive railway network which brought with it a telegraph and postal system improved communication which helped bridge regional differences and opened the way for Indians to develop a sense of national unity. [Put this code in the space stairway.] |
E. To find the QR code with your first question, you need to find the mural with India’s most sacred animal.&choe=UTF-8
Question 1 (of 5)
E1. The British East India Company, which was a business NOT a government organization, controlled how much of India by the mid-1800s?{Hint: You will find guidance to your next code in the helping hands}&choe=UTF-8
Question 2 (of 5)
E2. Define sati AND tell what the British policy was regarding it.{Listen to this audio clue to next code’s location http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEZtCThwaXE }&choe=UTF-8
Question 3 (of 5)
E3. How did British rule of India change as a result of the Sepoy Rebellion of 1857? {Your final code is in Neil Armstrong’s favorite stairway.}&choe=UTF-8
Question 4 (of 5)
E4. Describe the benefits of British rule in EACH of the following three areas—legal system, education, transportation.&choe=UTF-8
Question 5 (of 5)
