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.
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| 1. What cannibalistic tribe lived off the shores of the Gulf of Mexico? | Karankawas | 2. What Tribe gave the state of Texas it's name? | Caddo | 3. Why did plains Indians travel from place to place? | To find food sources | 4. How were Natives of the Mountains and Basins region able to successfully farm? | Irrigation | 5. What native tribe had Sam Houston spent many years with? | Cherokee | 6. Who was the last great Comanche war chief? | Quanah Parker | 7. These portable houses helped plains Indians migrate | teepees | 8. The conquering of these people's helped give Spain an outlet into Mexico? | Aztecs | 9. Natives were asked to convert to this religion so that they could change their heathen ways | Christianity | 10. The American idea of this caused the Native populations to be driven out of their homelands | Manifest Destiny |
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