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. Which Pawtuxet Indian served as interpreter and intermediary between the pilgrims and the Wampanoag? | Squanto | 2. This traditional Thanksgiving vegetable is grown on every continent except Antarctica. | Corn | 3. What is the dangling skin under a turkey's neck called? | Wattle | 4. In which year was the first Thanksgiving celebrated? a)1421 b)1521 c)1621 | c)1621 | 5. In 1621, which of the following foods that we eat at Thanksgiving today did they NOT serve? a) Pumpkin Pie b) Yams c) Cranberry Sauce | a)Pumpkin Pie | 6. In 1863, during the Civil War, which President declared Thanksgiving a national holiday? | Abraham Lincoln | 7. What do you call a male turkey? | Tom | 8. Where do turkeys sleep? a)nests b)caves c)trees d)fields | c)trees | 9. What was the name of the tribe that helped the Pilgrims? a) Iroquois b) Wampanoag c) Apache | b)Wampanoag | 10. Where do cranberries grow? a) in a tree b) on a bush c) in a bog | c)in a bog | 11. What was the name of the ship on which the pilgrims came to America? | Mayflower |
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