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. central govts are stronger than federal central govts | Unitary | 2. Each unit has final control of its own laws and citizens. | Confederation | 3. divide power between the central govt and the govt of smaller political units like states. | Federal | 4. Most federal systems give a lot of power to the lower governments to handle local affairs. | Federal | 5. can be unstable because members often want to do things their own way! | Confederation | 6. give all the power to the central gov’t | Unitary | 7. The central govt handles issues that concern the entire country, like maintaining armed forces and negotiating treaties with foreign countries. | Federal | 8. Is a loose alliance of countries | Confederation | 9. central gov’t may transfer some duties to smaller units like cities but it retains final authority | Unitary | 10. The central government makes decisions only on issues that affect the entire alliance | Confederation |
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