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.
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| 1. Before a country can industrialize it needs | an adequate food supply | 2. The natural resource that was plentiful in Britain and powered steam engines was2 | coal2 | 3. The textile industry was the first to use machine power because3the demand for clothing was high3 | During the Industrial Revolution people moved to urban areas (aka cities) in order to4work in factories4 | 4. European countries sought colonies in Africa and around the world because they needed6 | natural resources and markets6 | 5. Ethiopia was one of two African countries that resisted imperialism because they7 | fought back with modern weapons they acquired by trading ivory7 | 6. When Europe divided up Africa they8 | ignored Africa\'s cultural and ethnic diversity8 | 7. Applying Darwin\'s idea of survival of the fittest to humans is called9 | Social Darwinism9 | 8. Protesting to achieve suffrage (aka the right to vote) is an example of10 | attainment of rights10 | 9. In a democratic state the people11 | elect representatives to govern the state11 | 10. An example of anti-Semitism was12 | The Dreyfus Affari12 | 11. Anti-Semitism like the Dreyfus Affair led to a movement to create a Jewish state which is called13 | Zionism13 | 12. One of the main causes of WWI was14 | the existence of opposing alliances14 | 13. The Balkan peninsula was referred to as \"The Powder Keg waiting for a spark\" in the years leading up to WWI because15 | nationalism and imperialism were increasing in the area15 | 14. The United States suffered fewer casualties in WWI because16 | They entered the war later than most other countries16 Nationalism was a dividing force in the empire of17 |
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