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 is the definition of absolute monarch | a ruler who has complete authority over government and the lives of the people | 2. Definition of Nationalism | a feeling of pride in, and intense devotion to, one’s country | 3. Definition of divine right | the belief that authority to rule comes directly from God | 4. Who was Louis XIV | French king who built a palace at Versailles | 5. Who was Thomas Jefferson | primary author of the Declaration of Independence | 6. The U.S. wanted an ____ policy for trading in China | open door policy | 7. Imperialism is | the domination by one country of the political, economic, or cultural life of another country or region | 8. British citizens in China were granted ____, or the right to live under their own laws | extraterritoriality | 9. A ____ policy allows businesses to operate with little or no government interference | laissez faire | 10. Most of the working class lived in ____, multistory buildings divided into crowded apartments | tenements | 11. What are payments for war damage called? | reparations | 12. What is militarism | glorification of the military | 13. What does it mean for a country to be neutral? | supporting neither side in a war | 14. What was Germany’s plan to defeat France quickly and then attack Russia called | Schlieffen Plan | 15. What is genocide | deliberate destruction of a group of people | 16. What does blitzkrieg mean | lightning war | 17. What battle allowed the US to take the pacific in WWII | Midway |
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