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. What connected Cumberland, Maryland to Wheeling, VA using federal money to encourage interstate transportation to the West? | The National Road | 2. Who won the questionable election of 1824 becoming the 6th U.S. President? | JQ Adams | 3. A U.S. President is elected by having a majority of what kind of votes? | electoral | 4. Andrew Jackson transformed the political process by encouraging the common working man to do what? | vote | 5. By closing the Bank of the United States, Jackson gave banking authority to whom? | states | 6. Which state threatened to secede over the Tariff of Abomination? | South Carolina | 7. The forced march of thousands of Cherokee people to Indian Territory is called what? | The Trail of Tears |
What connected Cumberland, Maryland to Wheeling, VA using federal money to encourage interstate transportation to the West?&choe=UTF-8
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Who won the questionable election of 1824 becoming the 6th U.S. President?&choe=UTF-8
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A U.S. President is elected by having a majority of what kind of votes?&choe=UTF-8
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Andrew Jackson transformed the political process by encouraging the common working man to do what?&choe=UTF-8
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By closing the Bank of the United States, Jackson gave banking authority to whom?&choe=UTF-8
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Which state threatened to secede over the Tariff of Abomination?&choe=UTF-8
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The forced march of thousands of Cherokee people to Indian Territory is called what?&choe=UTF-8
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