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. Economics is the study of how limited resources are used to satisfy human wants, which is also known as ______________. | Scarcity | 2. Things people need and want are often divided into two categories: goods and services. A good is a thing or physical object. A service is an action that someone does for someone else. Give one example of a good. Give one example of a service. | paper, barber | 3. A ___________ is something you give up when you make a choice. | trade-off | 4. According to most economists, every society has to answer three basic questions. What are those three questions? | What is produced? How should resources be produced? For whom should items be distributed? | 5. Describe a traditional economic system and give an example. | Customs, beliefs and generational traditions that are often religiously based | 6. In a ___________ economic system, government leaders control the factors of production. | Command | 7. In a _____________ economic system, basic elements of pure market and command economy exist. | mixed | 8. Land, labor, and capital are the three factors of production. Give an example of each. | tree, lumberjack, paper mill | 9. What are the 6 characteristics of the American economy? | Limited role of government, free enterprise, freedom of choice, profit incentive, competition, and private property. | 10. What was the name of the spending program that addressed education, medical care, urban problems, rural poverty, and transportation in the 1960s? | Great Society | 11. Economic and social assistance from the gov’t and private agencies = . | Welfare | 12. Private business operates in competition and largely free of state control = . | Free enterprise. | 13. Individuals who take risks to develop new products and start new businesses in order to make profits are known as ______________. | Entrepreneurs | 14. Which group ultimately determines the goods and services produced by a free enterprise economy? | consumers |
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Things people need and want are often divided into two categories: goods and services. A good is a thing or physical object. A service is an action that someone does for someone else. Give one example of a good. Give one example of a service.&choe=UTF-8
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A ___________ is something you give up when you make a choice.&choe=UTF-8
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According to most economists, every society has to answer three basic questions. What are those three questions? &choe=UTF-8
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Describe a traditional economic system and give an example.&choe=UTF-8
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In a ___________ economic system, government leaders control the factors of production.&choe=UTF-8
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In a _____________ economic system, basic elements of pure market and command economy exist.&choe=UTF-8
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Land, labor, and capital are the three factors of production. Give an example of each.&choe=UTF-8
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What are the 6 characteristics of the American economy?&choe=UTF-8
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What was the name of the spending program that addressed education, medical care, urban problems, rural poverty, and transportation in the 1960s? &choe=UTF-8
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Economic and social assistance from the gov’t and private agencies = .&choe=UTF-8
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Private business operates in competition and largely free of state control = .&choe=UTF-8
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Individuals who take risks to develop new products and start new businesses in order to make profits are known as ______________.&choe=UTF-8
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Which group ultimately determines the goods and services produced by a free enterprise economy?&choe=UTF-8
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