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. 1. The Industrial Revolution created a need for ____________ leading to Imperialism. | Labor & Raw Materials | 2. 2.Some countries were able to avoid European takeover because they ____________. | Modernized | 3. 3.Europeans used _____________ as an excuse to take land and resources from people they considered inferior. | Social Darwinism | 4. 4.How did Japan become a world power by the end of the 1800s? | Westernized and industrialized. | 5. 5.Name one reason why Europeans wanted colonies? | Resources, power, spread Christianity | 6. 6.Many countries taken over by Europe tried to resist, why were they unsuccessful? | Did not have advanced technology/weapons | 7. 7. This country was a global empire that was so extensive that there was always at least one part of their territory that was in daylight at all time in the world.The ________ never set on the ________________. | Sun;British Empire | 8. 8.Whom did the Boxers target in the Boxer Rebellion? | Foreigners and Chinese Christians | 9. 9.The ________________ for ________________ led to European nations coming together at the Berlin Conference to discuss the division of _____________? | Scramble; Africa; Africa | 10. 10.The British referred to India as the __________________ because of its vast amount of resources and large population who were forced to buy British goods. | Jewel in the Crown |
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