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. This incident took place in 1856, when Congressman Preston Brooks severely beat Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner. The attack occurred in the Senate chamber, after Sumner gave a vitriolic speech, "The Crime Against Kansas". | Sumner-Brooks Incident | 2. The Court ruled against Dred Scott declaring that African Americans were NOT citizens. The Court went on to declare that banning slavery in the U.S. Territories was unconstitutional and that the federal government had no right to stop the expansion of slavery into the wes. | Dred Scott Decision | 3. 1858 Senate Debate, Lincoln forced Douglas to debate issue of slavery, Douglas supported pop-sovereignty, Lincoln asserted that slavery should not spread to territories, Lincoln emerged as strong Republican candidate. | Lincoln-Douglas Debates | 4. John Brown's failed scheme to invade the South w/ armed slaves, backed by sponsoring, N. abolitionists; seized the fed. arsenal; Brown & remnants were caught by Robert E. Lee and the US Marines; Brown was hanged; South feared danger if it stayed in Union. | John Brown's Raid at Harper's Ferry | 5. Outspoken Republican Senator who gave a two-day speech condemning the Kansas-Nebraska Act and called Andrew Butler and "imbecile." | Charles Sumner | 6. South Carolina Representative who attacked Charles Sumner with a cane. | Preston Brooks | 7. A Missouri slave who sued for his freedom. | Dred Scott | 8. Speech made by Abraham Lincoln before he was elected stating that the United States will either be all slave or all free because it can't be half and half and still succeed. | House Divided Speech | 9. Candidate in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates who supported popular sovereignty. | Stephen Douglas | 10. Candidate in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates who believed slavery was immoral and should not be allowed to spread. | Abraham Lincoln |
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