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. Why did American colonists protest the taxes imposed by the British government? | a.because they had no representation in parliament | 2. In March 1770, British soldiers fired into a crowd of Bostonians in an event that became known as the Boston Massacre. What was one effect of this event? | the Sons of Liberty dumped 340 chests of tea in the harbor | 3. The Sons of Liberty in Boston worked to get colonists to become angry with the British. What evidence from the text supports this conclusion? | vary | 4. Why might the Sons of Liberty have dumped the British tea into Boston Harbor? | vary | 5. What is the main idea of this text? | vary |
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