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. In 1841 the first group of 69 pioneers left Missouri and headed west for Oregon | 69 | 2. From 1841 to 1869, more than 350,000 people traveled across the Oregon Trail, as it soon came to be known2 | 350,0002 | 3. This journey was 2,000 miles to travel3 | 2,0003 | 4. It took 5-8 months to travel from Missouri to Oregon4 | 5-8months4 | 5. One in every 17 people died along the way5 | 175 | 6. If tombstones were evenly spaced from Missouri to Oregon, there would be one tombstone every 80 yards! That’s a lot of dying6 | 80yards6 | 7. Pioneers faced angry Indian tribes, disease, harsh weather, and little to eat7 | disease7 | 8. People traveled west for more land, religious freedom, and some heard there was gold8 | moreland8 | 9. Many people died of a disease called cholera. Others diseases the Pioneers faced were Malaria, dysentery, tuberculosis, yellow fever, and many more9 | cholera9 | 10. Many Pioneers heard the Oregon was “paradise on earth” and felt the risk was worth it10 | paradiseonearth10 |
In 1841 the first group of 69 pioneers left Missouri and headed west for Oregon&choe=UTF-8
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From 1841 to 1869, more than 350,000 people traveled across the Oregon Trail, as it soon came to be known2&choe=UTF-8
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This journey was 2,000 miles to travel3&choe=UTF-8
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It took 5-8 months to travel from Missouri to Oregon4&choe=UTF-8
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One in every 17 people died along the way5&choe=UTF-8
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If tombstones were evenly spaced from Missouri to Oregon, there would be one tombstone every 80 yards! That’s a lot of dying6&choe=UTF-8
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Pioneers faced angry Indian tribes, disease, harsh weather, and little to eat7&choe=UTF-8
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People traveled west for more land, religious freedom, and some heard there was gold8&choe=UTF-8
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Many people died of a disease called cholera. Others diseases the Pioneers faced were Malaria, dysentery, tuberculosis, yellow fever, and many more9&choe=UTF-8
Question 9 (of 10)
Many Pioneers heard the Oregon was “paradise on earth” and felt the risk was worth it10&choe=UTF-8
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