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. Name the strengths of the Union. | answer 1: population, railroads, finances, the Navy, factories, Abraham Lincoln. | 2. 2: Name the strengths of the Confederacy. | answer 2: defending their homes, military leadership, Robert E. Lee, knew the land. | 3. 3. Name Lincoln’s first general who later ran for president against Lincoln. | answer 3: McClellan | 4. 4. Name the famous Confederate commanding general. | answer 4: Gen. Robert E. Lee | 5. 5. Who was the Union general who won at Vicksburg and Shiloh; he would later command the Union army? | answer 5: Gen. U.S. Grant | 6. 6. Who was the Pres of the U.S. during the Civil War? | answer 6: Abraham Lincoln | 7. 7. Who was the Confederate general that led the failed final charge at Gettysburg: | answer 7: Gen Pickett | 8. 8. Name the African American unit that led the assault on Ft Wagner. | answer 8: 54th Mass | 9. 9. Who was the president of the Confederacy: | answer 9: Jefferson Davis | 10. 10. What is the term given to northerners who opposed the war? | answer 10: copperheads | 11. 11. What is the nickname given to southern troops? | answer 11: rebs | 12. 12. What is the nickname given to northern troops? | answer 12: yanks | 13. 13. Where did Gen Lee surrender to Gen Grant? | answer 13: Appomattox Court House | 14. 14. The term “total war” refers to this US battle campaign. | answer 14: Sherman’s March to Sea | 15. 15. What was the first major battle and a southern victory in VA? | answer 15: Bull Run | 16. 16. Where was the sight of the first battle between iron clad ships? | answer 16: Hampton Roads, VA | 17. 17. What battle led to Lincoln issuing the Eman Proclamation? | answer 17: Antietam | 18. 18. What battle was a win for the Union and included Pickett’s Charge? | answer 18: Gettysburg | 19. 19. What battle resulted in the Union’s control of most of the MS River? | answer 19: Vicksburg | 20. 20. What is the term for waging war on all fronts? | answer 20: total war | 21. 21. What is the term for mandatory military service? | answer 21: draft | 22. 22. What is the term for slave states that stayed in the Union? | answer 22: border states | 23. 23. What is another term for freedom? | answer 23: emancipation | 24. 24. What is the term for the right to know why you’re being held; right to trial? | answer 24: habeas corpus | 25. 25. What is the term for surrounding an enemy and firing on them until surrender? | answer 25: siege | 26. 26. What is the term for leaving or breaking away? | answer 26: secede |
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