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. The subregion of the United States also known as “the rustbelt” is | the Northeast. | 2. The United States is a federal republic, which divides power among national, state, and local governments, but it is also a representative democracy, which means that | the people rule through elected representatives. | 3. New England consists of Vermont, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut, and | Rhode Island. | 4. Many American corporations are involved in business worldwide and are called | multinationals. | 5. The United States is currently in what is called a postindustrial economy because | manufacturing is no longer the country’s most important industry. | 6. A majority of Americans work in fields such as information processing, finance, medicine,and education, which are parts of the | service industry | 7. The economy of the United States is run on a free enterprise system, in which | the government exerts little control over businesses, resources, and technology and is operated for profit by private individuals. | 8. Along with human migration, Europeans were also involved in the Columbian Exchange between the Eastern and Western hemispheres, which included the exchange of | plants, animals and diseases. | 9. A region that includes several large cities, their suburbs, and nearby towns is called a | megalopolis. | 10. During the 1800s, sectionalism within the rapidly growing United States eventually led to | the Civil War | 11. The transaction of 1803 that nearly doubled the area of the United States is known as | the Louisiana Purchase | 12. Businesses are owned and operated by private individuals for profit in a system of | free enterprise | 13. You can find about half of the land area of the United States and about one-fifth of its population in | the West | 14. In the 1800s, the tensions that developed and grew between the North and South regions of the United States were a result of | sectionalism | 15. A division of powers between national, state, and local governments is a hallmark of a | federal republic | 16. Legislators are elected by the people to stand for the people in a | representative democracy | 17. Plants, animals, and diseases were distributed between the Eastern and Western hemispheres during the | Columbian Exchange | 18. The South has recently seen an influx of industry; Atlanta, Georgia, is the hub, and with New Orleans, Houston, St. Petersburg, and other cities, have formed a new | metropolitan area | 19. A significant change in the economic traditions of the Midwest can be seen in the shift from manufacturing and farming to | service industries |
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