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. How did poverty and wealth play apart in why people started to see witchcraft as a crime? | poor ask for help | 2. How did people start to view elderly women and what impact did this have? | scapegoated | 3. Sum up the story of why and what would happen to a vulnerable women in a village. | blamed for bad events | 4. How were accusations of witchcraft dealt with in the Middle Ages? | Church courts | 5. What had happened in 1542? | law changed | 6. How did Queen Elizabeth and King James affect laws around witchcraft? | punished by death | 7. How many women were accused of witchcraft in the following 200 years and who was mainly responsible for reporting these? | 1000 | 8. How did religious changes impact the way in which witchcraft was viewed? | devil | 9. How did the English Civil War affect the way in which witchcraft was viewed? | uncertain times | 10. How were witch tried? | trial |
How did poverty and wealth play apart in why people started to see witchcraft as a crime?&choe=UTF-8
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How did people start to view elderly women and what impact did this have?&choe=UTF-8
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Sum up the story of why and what would happen to a vulnerable women in a village.&choe=UTF-8
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How were accusations of witchcraft dealt with in the Middle Ages?&choe=UTF-8
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What had happened in 1542?&choe=UTF-8
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How did Queen Elizabeth and King James affect laws around witchcraft?&choe=UTF-8
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How many women were accused of witchcraft in the following 200 years and who was mainly responsible for reporting these?&choe=UTF-8
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How did religious changes impact the way in which witchcraft was viewed?&choe=UTF-8
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How did the English Civil War affect the way in which witchcraft was viewed?&choe=UTF-8
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How were witch tried?&choe=UTF-8
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