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. individuals opposed to ratification of the Constitution. There major argument was that the Constitution should have a Bill of Rights.This group was led by Patrick Henry and George Mason. | Anti-Federalists | 2. document which formed the first government of the U.S. near the end of the American Revolution. The Confederation government gave states more power than the federal government. | Articles of Confederation | 3. an official change to a law or document of government. | Amendment | 4. first ten amendments to the Constitution guaranteeing individual liberties and due process of law. | Bill of Rights | 5. principle of government in which each branch of government can check the power of the other two branches. This principle keeps any one branch from becoming too powerful. | Checks and Balances | 6. delegates met in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to revise the Articles of Confederation; instead they wrote a new constitution and formed a federal system of government. | Constitutional Convention | 7. a special group of voters selected by their state legislators to vote for the president and vice president | Electoral College | 8. principle of government in which there is a division of power between the national and state governments | Federalism | 9. supporters of ratification of the Constitution led by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay. They believed in a strong national government. | Federalists | 10. essays written by James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay to support the ratification of the Constitution. | Federalist Papers | 11. compromise reached during the Constitutional Convention that established a bicameral (2 house) legislature: House of Representatives with representation based on population and a Senate with equal (2 from each state) representation. | Great Compromise | 12. the rights guaranteed to individual citizens by the Bill of Rights and other amendments to the Constitution. Freedom of speech and the press are two of these important rights. | Individual Rights | 13. principle of government in which government powers are limited to those given to it by the people. | Limited Government | 14. principle of government in which government derives its power from the people; idea of “We the People” | Popular Sovereignty | 15. to officially approve | Ratify | 16. government where people elect others to speak and act on their behalf. | Representative Government | 17. principle of government where people are ruled through elected officials. | Republicanism | 18. principle of government in which the power is divided between three branches: executive, legislative, and judicial | Separation of Powers | 19. compromise between Southern and Northern states during the Constitutional Convention in which only three-fifths of the population of slaves would be counted for determining taxation and representation. | 3/5 Compromise | 20. power of the President to reject a bill passed by Congress. | Veto | 21. basic rights that cannot be taken away from the people such as “life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness”. These rights are stated in the Declaration of Independence. | Unalienable Rights |
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