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. Name the body of water that borders the colonies on the east? | Atlantic Ocean | 2. The thirteen colonies are divided into 3 sections. What are they? | Southern, Mid Atlantic, New England | 3. Name 2 states that border New York. | Mass, NJ, PA, NH, Connecticut | 4. Tobacco was an important cash crop in the colonies. Name 2 states that produced tobacco. | NC, SC, VA, | 5. What is the name of the ship that the Pilgrims sailed on to come to the New World? | Mayflower | 6. Name 2 reasons the colonists came to the New World. | religious freedom, riches, better life, adventure | 7. Massachusetts and New Hampshire are in the ____________________colonies. | New England |
Name the body of water that borders the colonies on the east?&choe=UTF-8
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The thirteen colonies are divided into 3 sections. What are they?&choe=UTF-8
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Name 2 states that border New York.&choe=UTF-8
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Tobacco was an important cash crop in the colonies. Name 2 states that produced tobacco. &choe=UTF-8
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What is the name of the ship that the Pilgrims sailed on to come to the New World?&choe=UTF-8
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Name 2 reasons the colonists came to the New World. &choe=UTF-8
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Massachusetts and New Hampshire are in the ____________________colonies.&choe=UTF-8
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