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. This law allowed California to enter the union as a free state and allowed the people to decide on the New Mexico and Utah territories. | The Compromise of 18505 | 2. Anti- slavery and pro slavery settlers violently contested for control of this territory. This bloody time became known as?2 | Bleeding Kansas | 3. If a person is extremely loyal to a section or a region, what do we call it? | 3 Sectionalism | 4. A person who want to put an end to slavery.4 | Abolitionist4 | 5. An agreement made by two sides.5 | Compromise5 | 6. This law allowed the state of Missouri and Maine to enter the union as a slave and a free state respectively. The law also created an even split of slave and free state.6 | The Missouri Compromise6 | 7. This law announced that all slaves in those states still in rebellion on January 1, 1863 would be freed.7 | Emancipation Proclamation7 | 8. General Winfield Scott plan called for a naval blockade of the Confederate shoreline, a thrust down the Mississippi, and the strangulation of the South by Union land and naval forces.8 | Anaconda Plan8 | 9. The withdrawal of eleven southern states from the Union in 1860, leading to the Civil War. 9 | Secession of 18609 | 10. Anti- slavery and pro slavery settlers violently contested for control of this territory. This bloody time became known as?10 | Bleeding Kansas | 11. The idea that citizens of newly formed territories could decide when they applied for statehood whether slavery would be allowed in their new state.This act of congress repealed the Missouri Compromise.11 | Kansas-Nebraska Act11 | 12. Because of this law as an escaped slave in the north I must be returned to my master.12 | Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 |
This law allowed California to enter the union as a free state and allowed the people to decide on the New Mexico and Utah territories.&choe=UTF-8
Question 1 (of 12)
Anti- slavery and pro slavery settlers violently contested for control of this territory. This bloody time became known as?2&choe=UTF-8
Question 2 (of 12)
If a person is extremely loyal to a section or a region, what do we call it?&choe=UTF-8
Question 3 (of 12)
A person who want to put an end to slavery.4&choe=UTF-8
Question 4 (of 12)
An agreement made by two sides.5&choe=UTF-8
Question 5 (of 12)
This law allowed the state of Missouri and Maine to enter the union as a slave and a free state respectively. The law also created an even split of slave and free state.6&choe=UTF-8
Question 6 (of 12)
This law announced that all slaves in those states still in rebellion on January 1, 1863 would be freed.7&choe=UTF-8
Question 7 (of 12)
General Winfield Scott plan called for a naval blockade of the Confederate shoreline, a thrust down the Mississippi, and the strangulation of the South by Union land and naval forces.8&choe=UTF-8
Question 8 (of 12)
The withdrawal of eleven southern states from the Union in 1860, leading to the Civil War. 9&choe=UTF-8
Question 9 (of 12)
Anti- slavery and pro slavery settlers violently contested for control of this territory. This bloody time became known as?10&choe=UTF-8
Question 10 (of 12)
The idea that citizens of newly formed territories could decide when they applied for statehood whether slavery would be allowed in their new state.This act of congress repealed the Missouri Compromise.11&choe=UTF-8
Question 11 (of 12)
Because of this law as an escaped slave in the north I must be returned to my master.12&choe=UTF-8
Question 12 (of 12)
