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. What 2 groups were highly combative with each other during Europe’s religious wars? | Calvinists and Catholics | 2. Phillip II of Spain insisted on conformity and support for what religion?2 | Catholic2 | 3. What did the Spanish believe they were chosen by God to do?3 | to save Catholicism from Protestant heretics3 | 4. Who was Elizabeth Tudor?4 | She was a Protestant Queen who eventually founded a world empire.4 | 5. What 2 things was Queen Elizabeth supreme over?5 | Church and State5 | 6. How did Queen Elizabeth try to keep peace?6 | She practiced a moderate Protestantism.6 | 7. What did Phillip II send to England and why?7 | He sent the Spanish Armada. He wanted to invade England and overthrow Protestantism.7 | 8. What did the defeat of the Spanish Armada mean for England?8 | It saved Protestantism in England.8 | 9. Who were the Huguenots in France?9 | French Protestants9 | 10. What did the Edict of Nantes recognize and allow?10 | It recognized Catholicism as the official religion of France and allowed Protestants to openly worship. |
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