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. 1. Christopher Columbus was trying to get to ________________ by sailing west. | The Indies | 2. 2. Many Native Americans died because of ___________________brought by Europeans. | Diseases | 3. 3. Moctezuma was the leader of the_______________________. | Inca Empire. | 4. 4. The rulers gave _____________ or large areas of land to loyal colonists. | Encomiendas | 5. 5. Bartholome de Las Casa was a famous_______________. | Missionary | 6. 6. A _________________ is a person of both Spanish and Native American descent. | Mestizo | 7. 7. _____________________hired Henry Hudson to find the Northwest Passage. | Dutch East India Company | 8. 8. What did John Cabot hope to discover in his travels? | Northwest Passage | 9. 9. A _______________ was a group of business people who later paid for explorations. | Merchant Company | 10. 10. Why did New Spain grow slowly? | The king preferred Catholics settle there |
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