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. Who is the leader of the Colonial Army? | George Washington | 2. Who was a well known and persuasive attorney and a staunch advocate for American independence?2 | Patrick Henry2 | 3. Who was elected as the second president of th United States and remembered as a Founding Father?3 | John Adams3 | 4. Who was elected to the House of Representatives, where he helped draft The Bill of Rights and fought against passage of the Alien and Sedition Acts and was also the fourth president of the United states?4 | James Madison | 5. Joseph Warren sent ______, a messenger, to warn the Provincial Congress of Massachusetts of the British troop movements towards Concord. Soon after Revere’s warning was received, the citizens of Concord began quickly moving the Patriot militia supplies to a safer location.5 | Paul Revere5 |
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Who was a well known and persuasive attorney and a staunch advocate for American independence?2&choe=UTF-8
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Who was elected as the second president of th United States and remembered as a Founding Father?3&choe=UTF-8
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Who was elected to the House of Representatives, where he helped draft The Bill of Rights and fought against passage of the Alien and Sedition Acts and was also the fourth president of the United states?4&choe=UTF-8
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Joseph Warren sent ______, a messenger, to warn the Provincial Congress of Massachusetts of the British troop movements towards Concord. Soon after Revere’s warning was received, the citizens of Concord began quickly moving the Patriot militia supplies to a safer location.5&choe=UTF-8
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