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. TERMS/NAMES This is how I seized power in France | coup d'etat | 2. TERMS/NAMES This a vote of the people I needed for power | plebiscite | 3. TERMS/NAMES This is a uniform system of laws I established for France | Napoleonic Code | 4. TERMS/NAMES I signed this formal agreement with Pope Pius VII and it established a new relationship between church/state | concordat | 5. TERMS/NAMES To provide government with trained officials I set these up | lycees | 6. 229 People said I was a "short man." How tall was I? | five feet three inches tall | 7. 230 My first task as consul was to get the economy of France on solid footing. What two things did I do to begin this? | method of tax collection and establish a national banking system | 8. 230 In military school what were the three subjects I had the most passion for? | classical history, geography, and mathematics | 9. 230 In 1799, what did I get Britain, Austria, and Russia to do? | signed peace agreements with France | 10. 231 In 1804, what did I decide to do for myself in France? | make himself emperor of France | 11. 231 On December 2, 1804 I took the crown from the pope and put it on my own head. What was I signaling by this gesture? | more powerful than the Church | 12. 231 What were the two reasons I sold the Louisiana Territory in the U.S. to President Jefferson? | gain money to finance operations in Europe, punish the British | 13. EXTRA CREDIT!!! First group who scans this needs to randomly stand up and read this quote by Napoleon to the class LOUDLY: "History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon" | extra credit quote | 14. FIND THE PAINTING of me in the classroom. What is the name of the painting and the artist? | Napoleon on His Throne Artist: Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres | 15. 231 As I set out to conquer Europe, who did the British persuade to join them to fight against France? | Russia, Austria, and Sweden | 16. MAP 232 How many French victories and defeats did I have during the War in Europe (1805-1813) | 10 victories 5 defeats | 17. 233 With all of my battlefield successes, I forced the rulers of Austria, Prussia, and Russia to sign peace treaties. What did this allow me to create? | largest European empire since that of the Romans | 18. 233 After building my French Empire, by 1812 which were the only 4 areas in Europe free from my control? | Britain, Portugal, Sweden, and the Ottoman Empire |
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