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 person started a school in Alabama where black children could learn skills such as shoe- making and farming | Booker T. Washington | 2. Who contracted polio as a child and was told she would never walk again, but earned the nickname “the fastest woman in the world” when she became the first woman to win three gold medals in the same Olympics | Wilma Rudolph | 3. abolition after gaining her freedom from slavery | Sojourner Truth | 4. Who became the first African American Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court | Justice Thurgood Marshall | 5. was a mathematician and physicist who helped send John Glenn around the Earth. She performed her duties with the NASA space agency | Katherine Johnson | 6. is one of the most important writers of the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s, which celebrated black life and culture | Langston Hughes | 7. Scientist and mathematician who is credited with helping to design the blueprints for Washington, D.C. | Benjamin Banneker | 8. Who was the founder of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and was known as the ‘1st Lady of the Civil Rights Movement | Fannie Lou Hamer | 9. Who is the founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association | Marcus Garvey | 10. was an all-Black, all-female unit of the U.S. Military. Their sole mission was to get something to American troops, personnel, and volunteers stationed around England during World War II. What was it | The 6888th Battalion, or the “Six Triple Eight,” |
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Who was the founder of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and was known as the ‘1st Lady of the Civil Rights Movement&choe=UTF-8
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was an all-Black, all-female unit of the U.S. Military. Their sole mission was to get something to American troops, personnel, and volunteers stationed around England during World War II. What was it&choe=UTF-8
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