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. The name for the Spanish soldiers and explorers who brought much of the Americas under Spanish rule in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries | conquistadors | 2. A Vatican office created in 1622 by Pope Gregory XV to coordinate and oversee foreign missionary activity | congregation for the propagation of the faith | 3. The two countries that first began to explore the new world | Spain & Portugal | 4. The conquistador who conquered the Aztecs | Hernando Cortes | 5. This Spanish missionary evangelized Latin America by focusing on respect and dignity of the native peoples and helping to end the encomienda system of forced labor | Bartolome de las Casas | 6. One of the patrons of Peru, this man was the illegitimate son of a freed slave and a Spanish nobleman | St. Martin de Porres | 7. This missionary dedicated himself to caring for the enslaved people arriving in Columbia via the slave trade | St. Peter Claver | 8. This apparation of Mary is credited with the conversion of Mexico | Our Lady of Guadalupe | 9. This missionary to the Far East also helped to found the Jesuits with St. Ignatius of Loyola | St. Francis Xavier | 10. In India, this missionary helped the native population to see that once converted, they could be ordained as priests | Robert de Nobili | 11. This missionary served in China and used his knowledge of astronomy to befriend the emperor | Matteo Ricci | 12. The name of the "official" Catholic Church in China today | Chinese Catholic Patriot Association (CCPA) | 13. This was the first mission in North America | St. Augustine in Florida | 14. The number of missions St. Junipero Serra founded in California | 21 | 15. The religious order that successfully evangelized in Canada and the Northeast US, work which eventually ended in their martyrdom | Jesuits |
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