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. Monarch's of England believed they had the right to rule by the 'grace of God'. What was this called | The divine right | 2. To provide someone with an important job or position is known as.....2 | Patronage | 3. Whose help did Elizabeth need in order to raise taxation 3 | Parliament | 4. Which two countries made up the Auld Alliance against England 4 | Scotland and France | 5. Which port in France did Mary 1 have to give back to the French 5 | Calais | 6. In which year did the English Reformation begin 6 | 1532 | 7. Which part of the religious settlement is missing-Royal Injunctions, Act of Supremacy and ...... 7 | Act of Uniformity | 8. What was the Royal Supremacy 8 | The monarch is the head of the church | 9. Catholics who refused to go to church as laid down by the Elizabethan religious settlement were called ..... 9 | Recusants | 10. Bishops inspected churches to ensure all clergy took the oath of supremacy and enacted the religious settlement. What was this inspection called 10 | Visitation | 11. The religious settlement brought with it 2 big issues. What were they 11 | Problems over vestments and crucifixes | 12. Who was Elizabeth's favorite who wanted to marry her but couldn't as his wife died in mysterious circumstances. 12 | Robert Dudley the Earl of Leicester | 13. Which two earls led the Revolt of the Northern Earls 13 | Northumberland and Westmorland | 14. Who did Philip of Spain send to the Netherlands to put down the Dutch Revolt 14 | The Duke of Alba | 15. Elizabeth gave shelter to Dutch rebels in English ports who fled the Dutch revolt. What did they call themselves 15 | The Sea Beggars | 16. In which year did Mary Queen of Scots arrive in England 16 | 1568 | 17. Whose murder was Mary said to be implicated with 17 | Her husband Lord Darnley | 18. Who was Elizabeth's chief spy master 18 | Francis Walsingham | 19. What was the name of the Italian banker from Florence who arranged a plot to murder Elizabeth 19 | Roberto Ridolfi | 20. In 1583 Elizabeth's spy master arrested who for plotting to murder her 20 | Anthony Throckmorton |
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