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 significance of 1607? | Jamestown Virginia was founded - first permanent English settlement in North America. Profitable with slaves and tobacco. | 2. A group of Protestants (Separatists) who were persecuted in England for their religious beliefs and moved to the Massachusetts Bay Colony to freely practice their religion | Puritans | 3. Like the Puritans, considered Separatists, left England to escape discrimination by the king for their religious practices which did not follow the rules of the English church. Starving time led to the Squanto teaching them how to farm | Pilgrims | 4. A group of Protestants that settled in Pennsylvania under the leadership of William Penn that practiced religious tolerance and believed in the equality of all people | Quakers | 5. An agreement signed by all the men aboard the Mayflower setting up a voluntary system of self-government for their new colony | Mayflower Compact | 6. Puritan leader who founded Connecticut and contributed to the development of self-government in the colonies | Thomas Hooker | 7. Founded Pennsylvania and contributed to the development of self-government in the colonies and advocated for freedom of religion and democracy, that tax-paying males could vote and for a bicameral(two-house)legislature | William Penn | 8. The first colonial representative assembly (legislature) where males in Jamestown were elected and called Burgesses | Virginia House of Burgesses | 9. An economic theory from the 1500-1600s that says a colony's trade should benefit its mother country. The colonies should provide England with raw materials and provide a market for England's finished products | mercantilism | 10. Which war did Britain and France fight over the land and natural resources of the Ohio River Valley. Indians fought with the British | French and Indian War |
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