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. On what page does the table of contents begin? | vi | 2. Your text contains a Primary Source Handbook. What primary source can be found on page R55? (Hint: What is the title and who wrote it?) | Ninety Five Theses by Martin Luther | 3. According to your atlas, what items were traded in the 14th and 15th centuries on Indian Ocean routes? (List the first three.) | ambergris, aromatics, cowries | 4. What is listed at the bottom of each chapter lesson opener page, after Main Ideas and Taking Notes? | California State Standards for World History | 5. Which company provides the atlas in your history book and other related maps? | Rand McNally | 6. On what page can you find a list of interactive maps and visuals? | page xx | 7. What is in the upper right hand corner of each new chapter lesson opener? | terms and names | 8. Each chapter lesson may have two or three of these essential things. What are they? | best answer: essential questions | 9. What is the website associated with this world history text? That is, where could you go online to find out more information about a topic? | ClassZone.com | 10. Before each chapter actually starts, you get to sit back and enjoy a _____. | story | 11. At each chapter lesson opener, after telling you the Main Ideas, what do they offer you as a suggestion to become a better student? | best answer: how to take notes | 12. Many times if you look at the bottom right hand corner of a page, what will it tell you (aside from the page number)? | the title of the chapter | 13. Who is the “History Maker” profiled in Chapter 5? | Askia Muhammad | 14. What is at the conclusion of each Primary Source excerpt? | a document-based question | 15. What other language is your glossary written in? | Spanish | 16. What are Hindu teachers called? On which reference page did you find this information? | gurus, pg. R66 | 17. What is the essential question on page 463? | Who is credited with the beginning of the Reformation? | 18. What is the abbreviation put in front of dates that are approximate? (example: pg. 422) | c. or ca. (which is an abbreviation for the Latin “circa”) | 19. What is the purpose behind the information given to you on pages 72 – 73? | “To recognize Rome’s effect on modern society” | 20. According to the World Religions Handbook in your text, what makes up the clergy of the Buddhist faith? | Buddhist monks | 21. What is the title of unit one? | Introduction to World History | 22. Ankara, Turkey, is located on which line of latitude? | 40 ˚ N | 23. According to one of the numerous maps in your textbook (not just in the atlas section!) did Portuguese explorer Bartolomeu Dias sail all the way around Africa? | No! He sailed down the west coast and around the tip before stopping. | 24. On page 344, what is shown in the photograph? | Opening Session of Parliament, or Queen Elizabeth II | 25. On page 241, the Chinese admiral Zheng He is compared to what other famous mariner? | Christopher Columbus |
On what page does the table of contents begin?&choe=UTF-8
Question 1 (of 25)
Your text contains a Primary Source Handbook. What primary source can be found on page R55? (Hint: What is the title and who wrote it?)&choe=UTF-8
Question 2 (of 25)
According to your atlas, what items were traded in the 14th and 15th centuries on Indian Ocean routes? (List the first three.)&choe=UTF-8
Question 3 (of 25)
What is listed at the bottom of each chapter lesson opener page, after Main Ideas and Taking Notes?&choe=UTF-8
Question 4 (of 25)
Which company provides the atlas in your history book and other related maps?&choe=UTF-8
Question 5 (of 25)
On what page can you find a list of interactive maps and visuals?&choe=UTF-8
Question 6 (of 25)
What is in the upper right hand corner of each new chapter lesson opener?&choe=UTF-8
Question 7 (of 25)
Each chapter lesson may have two or three of these essential things. What are they?&choe=UTF-8
Question 8 (of 25)
What is the website associated with this world history text? That is, where could you go online to find out more information about a topic?&choe=UTF-8
Question 9 (of 25)
Before each chapter actually starts, you get to sit back and enjoy a _____.&choe=UTF-8
Question 10 (of 25)
At each chapter lesson opener, after telling you the Main Ideas, what do they offer you as a suggestion to become a better student?&choe=UTF-8
Question 11 (of 25)
Many times if you look at the bottom right hand corner of a page, what will it tell you (aside from the page number)?&choe=UTF-8
Question 12 (of 25)
Who is the “History Maker” profiled in Chapter 5?&choe=UTF-8
Question 13 (of 25)
What is at the conclusion of each Primary Source excerpt?&choe=UTF-8
Question 14 (of 25)
What other language is your glossary written in?&choe=UTF-8
Question 15 (of 25)
What are Hindu teachers called? On which reference page did you find this information?&choe=UTF-8
Question 16 (of 25)
What is the essential question on page 463?&choe=UTF-8
Question 17 (of 25)
What is the abbreviation put in front of dates that are approximate? (example: pg. 422)&choe=UTF-8
Question 18 (of 25)
What is the purpose behind the information given to you on pages 72 – 73?&choe=UTF-8
Question 19 (of 25)
According to the World Religions Handbook in your text, what makes up the clergy of the Buddhist faith?&choe=UTF-8
Question 20 (of 25)
What is the title of unit one?&choe=UTF-8
Question 21 (of 25)
Ankara, Turkey, is located on which line of latitude?&choe=UTF-8
Question 22 (of 25)
According to one of the numerous maps in your textbook (not just in the atlas section!) did Portuguese explorer Bartolomeu Dias sail all the way around Africa?&choe=UTF-8
Question 23 (of 25)
On page 344, what is shown in the photograph?&choe=UTF-8
Question 24 (of 25)
On page 241, the Chinese admiral Zheng He is compared to what other famous mariner?&choe=UTF-8
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