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. Columbian Exchange | a movement of plants, animals and diseases between the Eastern and Western Hemispheres. | 2. Crusades | a series of wars to capture the Christian Holy Land in the Middle East. Launched by European Christians. | 3. Renaissance | "rebirth" of art in Europe. Period in Europe that brought increased interest in art and learning. | 4. Mercantilism | economic system in which European nations increased their wealth and power by obtaining gold and silver and having a favorable balance of trade. | 5. Triangular Trade | transatlantic system of trade in which goods (including slaves) were exchanged between Africa, Europe, the West Indies and the colonies of North America. | 6. ethnocentrism | judging another culture solely by the values and standards of one's own culture. often leads to discrimination. | 7. Christopher Columbus | Italian explorer who sailed for Spain and claimed land. | 8. Conquistadors | Spanish explorer and conqueror who sailed to the Americas | 9. Printing Press | invention by Johannes Gutenberg. mechanical movable type printing introduced the era of mass communication which permanently altered the structure of society. | 10. Spanish Armada | fleet of ships sent in 1588 by Philip II, the Spanish King, to invade England and restore Roman Catholicism. | 11. colonization | the act of setting up a colony away from one's place of origin. | 12. Henry Hudson | English sea explorer and navigator in the early 17th century. Hudson made two attempts on behalf of to find a prospective Northwest Passage to Cathay via a route above the Arctic Circle | 13. Northwest Passage | a long-sought water route through or around the northern part of North America, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Early explorers hoped such a route would shorten voyages from Europe to Asia. | 14. New Netherlands | the first Dutch colony in North America. It extended from Albany, New York, in the north to Delaware in the south and encompassed parts of what are now the states of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Connecticut, and Delaware. |
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