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. Representation | To have someone speak or act for you | 2. Treason2 | The act of working against one\'s own government2 | 3. Congress3 | A formal meeting of government representatives3 | 4. Boycott4 | To refuse to buy or use goods or services4 | 5. Repeal5 | To cancel, or undue a law5 | 6. Imperial Policy6 | 7. Protest7 | To work against, or object to, a certain policy7 | 8. Benjamin Franklin8 | 1706-1790 American leader and delegate to the Constitutional Convention. He was also respected scientist and business leader8 | 9. Mercy Otis Warren9 | 1728-1814 Massachusetts colonist who wrote poems and plays supporting the Patriot cause.9 | 10. Samuel Adams10 | 1722-1803 American Revolutionary leader who set up a Committee of Correspondence in Boston and helped form the Sons of Liberty10 | 11. Crispus Attucks11 | 1725?-1770 African American sailor who was killed during the Boston Massacre11 | 12. Paul Revere12 | 1735-1818 Massachusetts colonist who warned the Patriots that the British were marching toward Concord.12 | 13. New York City13 | The largest city in New York, originally founded by the Dutch and later taken over by the English; a major port city.13 | 14. Boston14 | The Capital of Massachusetts, located in the eastern part of the state; an important city during the American Revolution.14 |
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