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. An extremely important Supreme Court case in terms of the establishment of judicial review. | Marbury v. Madison | 2. The most important Chief Justice in the history of the United States. His opinions helped establish the basis for American constitutional law and increased the power of the Supreme Court. | John Marshall | 3. In 1803 Jefferson purchased this territory from Napoleon for a mere 15 million dollars. This purchase doubled the size of the United States. | Louisiana Purchase | 4. A military conflict fought between the U.S. and Britain. The Americans declared war for expansion, trade restrictions, and impressment of American merchant sailors in the Royal Navy. | War of 1812 | 5. A duo commissioned by Jefferson to explore the newly purchased Louisiana Territory and return with both scientific and commercial information. | Lewis and Clark | 6. Establishes whether or not a law is constitutional. | judicial review | 7. Court case that established "the power to tax is the power destroy". | McCulloch v. Maryland | 8. A statement of foreign policy which proclaimed that Europe should not interfere in affairs within the United States or in the development of other countries in the Western Hemisphere. | Monroe Doctrine | 9. Belief that national interests should be placed ahead of regional concerns or interests of other countries. | nationalism | 10. Henry Clay's to unify the North and South through their increasingly different economies. | American System |
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