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 the name of the Puritan poet who wrote "Contemplations?" | Anne Bradstreet | 2. How did William Bradford view God? | He viewed God as a leader. | 3. How did John Winthrop view the Puritan community? | As a "city up on a hill" for all to see | 4. Which preacher gave apocalyptic announcements during Great Awakening? | Jonathan Edwards | 5. What did Ben Franklin say about commerce and morality? | They should be joined together. | 6. Who is famous for the writing of his Autobiography? | Ben Franklin | 7. Who wrote the pamphlet Common Sense? | Thomas Paine | 8. Was Thomas Jefferson an Idealist or Impericist? | Impericist | 9. Who wrote Rip Van Winkle? | Washington Irving | 10. Who wrote "A Model of Christian Charity?" | John Winthrop |
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