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. Place in Virginia where John Brown led a raid on a federal arsenal | Harper's Ferry | 2. Union military post in South Carolina which was taken over by the Confederacy in 1861 | Fort Sumter | 3. Southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861 | Confederates | 4. Place where Civil War ended on April 9, 1865, when Lee surrendered to Grant | Appomattox Courthouse | 5. March of an army of 62,000 men from Atlanta toward Savannah, Georgia which left a path of almost total destruction | Sherman's March | 6. Document freeing slaves in Union-controlled Confederate states | Emancipation Proclamation | 7. Northern states during the American Civil War | Union | 8. Civil War battle in which 25,000 men were killed or wounded | Battle of Antietam | 9. Ships made out of iron | Ironclad | 10. A series of agreements passed by Congress in 1820-1821 to maintain the balance of power between slave states and free states | Missouri Compromise | 11. To leave or withdraw | Secede | 12. Union strategy for winning by "squeezing" on all sides | Anaconda Plan |
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