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.
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1. What is a blockade? What was going on in Europe when Great Britain blockaded Napoleon and the French? How did this affect American Ships? | 2. What is impressment? How did Americans feel about this incident? | 3. what is an embargo? What was Jefferson’s reasoning behind the embargo of 1807? | 4. What did William Henry Harrison do in 1809? | 5. Who was Tecumseh? How did he try to resist American expansion west? | 6. Who were the War Hawks? What motivated them to call for war? | 7. What happened in the Spring of 1812? |
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