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. Focus on the interests of one's own region | Sectionalism | 2. To withdraw from a larger unit one belongs to | secede | 3. What year did the Civil War begin? | 1861 | 4. What was the main dispute in the Civil War? | Slavery | 5. What was another name for the North & the South? | Union & Confederacy | 6. How many states were in the Union | 34 | 7. How many states were in the Confederacy? | 11 | 8. Choose the best definition of the term "border state." | slaves states that remained loyal to the United States | 9. What was one advantage held by the South during the war? | defending their own territory | 10. What was one advantage held by the North during the war? | greater industrial resources | 11. What was the South's main advantage during the war? | better leaders/generals | 12. Who had more men, weapons, and naval technology? | the Union | 13. A political party formed to prevent the spread of slavery | Republican Party | 14. AN Illinois lawyer who became the 16th President of the US by winning the election of 1860. | Abraham Lincoln | 15. What was the first state to secede? | South Carolina | 16. What was the name for the Union strategy during the war? | Anaconda Plan | 17. Who had a strategy that called for fighting a defensive war? | The South | 18. One part of the Union's strategy called for the capture of __________, the Confederacy's capital. | Richmond, Virginia | 19. Why did the Union want to take control of the Mississippi River? | to cut the Confederacy in half, stopping troops & supply movements | 20. What was the purpose of the Union's naval blockade? | to cut-off Southern trade & ruin the Confederate economy | 21. What effect did the Union blockade have on the South? | created a shortage of supplies | 22. Who had the advantage fighting to defend their homeland? | The Confederacy | 23. Who had the advantage in population - 22 million to 9 million? | The Union | 24. Who had the advantage in war resources - factories, railroads, workers, farmland, etc.? | The Union | 25. This battle was enough of a victory for Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation. | Antietam | 26. This battle is considered the turning point in the war. | Gettysburg | 27. Final battle of Civil War - Lee surrenders to Grant. | Appomattox | 28. Grant won this battle, taking control of the Mississippi River. | Vicksburg | 29. Sherman's __________ tore up major rail lines, burned cities, & broke the South's will to fight. | March to the Sea | 30. What Southern general became famous in the battle of Bull Run? | Thomas Stonewall Jackson | 31. What did the Emancipation Proclamation do? | Freed the slaves in the South & allowed African-Americans to join the army | 32. What Amendment outlawed slavery? | 13th Amendment | 33. Lincoln said our country was conceived in liberty. What did he mean? | founded for freedom | 34. Lincoln said the soldiers had consecrated the land. What did he mean? | they made it a sacred site | 35. What was so special about "four score and seven years ago" in the Gettysburg Address? | the Declaration of Independence | 36. Lincoln believes that victory for the Union will result in. | a new birth of freedom and equality | 37. The strategy of burning railroads, factories, and farmland. | Total Warfare | 38. Who was the President of the Confederacy? | Jefferson Davis | 39. Who was the President of the Union? | Abraham Lincoln | 40. Who was the General of the Army of Northern Virginia (the South)? | Robert E. Lee | 41. Who was the General of the Army of the Potomac (the North)? | Ulysses S. Grant | 42. How was Lincoln assassinated? | he was shot in the back of the head at a theater | 43. Less than a week after the end of the Civil War ended, Lincoln was assassinated by. | John Wilkes Booth | 44. Most common cause of death in the Civil War. | Disease/Infection | 45. Reason for such a high death count during the Civil War. | Old Tactics/New Weapons |
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