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. 1. What was the ruling in the Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson? | segregation is legal | 2. 2. A group of writers, including the likes of Upton Sinclair, Lincoln Steffens, and Ida Tarbell, during the Progressive era who tried to expose the problems that existed in American society as a result of the rise of big business, urbanization, and immigration | muckrakers | 3. 3. This amendment gave the government power to collect income taxes | 16th | 4. 4. This amendment gave women the right to vote | 19th | 5. 5. This amendment stated that senators would be elected by the voters of their state | 17th | 6. 6.This amendment made alcohol illegal in the | 18th | 7. 7. Give on example of a push factor of immigration and one example of a pull factor | push factor poverty pull factor job opportunities | 8. 8. The first inexpensive industrial process that allowed for the mass production of steel | Bessemer Process | 9. 9. Give two reasons why the U.S. got involved in a war with Spain in 1898? (Spanish-American War) | yellow journalism, sinking of the USS Maine | 10. 10. Give two sports that became increasingly popular during the early 1900's | baseball, football, boxing | 11. 11. What was the name of the novel that to expose the appalling working conditions in the meat-packing industry? You must also include the name of the author | The Jungle, Upton Sinclair | 12. 12. What political party did Teddy Roosevelt run for the election of 1912 | Progressive or Bull Moose Party | 13. 13.The rounding up and deportation of several hundred immigrants of radical political views by the federal government in 1919 and 1920. This was caused by fears of subversion by communists in the United States after the Russian Revolution | The Red Scare | 14. 14. List the 5 causes of WWI (you don't have to explain each | M.A.N.I.A. | 15. 15. A policy proposed by the US in 1899, under which ALL nations would have equal opportunities to trade in China | Open Door Policy | 16. 16. sensationalized news for the purpose of increasing paper sales | yellow journalism | 17. 17. Reformers that set out to fix societal and governmental problems | progressives | 18. 18. A feeling of intense loyalty to a country or group | nationalism | 19. 19. The policy of extending a nation's rule over other territories and countries | imperialism | 20. 20. A system in which countries agree to defend each other | alliance system | 21. 21. A revolution of African-American culture in New York City | Harlem Renaissance | 22. 22. Give one specific reason why nativism grew in the early 1900's | rise of immigration job competition | 23. 23. How did the results of the Haymarket Square Riot affect the labor movement? | lost public support | 24. 24.How did Teddy Roosevelt handle the Labor Crisis of 1902? (Hint: This labor crisis involved coal miners) | forced the owners to arbitration | 25. 25. What did the United States get from winning the Spanish-American War? | Puerto Rico, Philippines, Guam as territories, Cuba as protectorate | 26. 26. Name the four main countries that made up the Allied Powers in WWI | France, England, U.S., Soviet Union | 27. 27. During WWI, where was the Western Front? (Which country? | France | 28. 28. Give 3 NEW weapons that were used during WWI | planes, zeppelin, gas | 29. 29. What was the name of the treaty was signed by the Allied Powers and Germany which officially brought an end to WWI? | Treaty of Versailles | 30. 30. A sum paid regularly to a person, usually after retirement | pension |
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