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.
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| 1. Advantages of the Presidential System include protection against tyranny and high accountability to voters | A | 2. An advantage of the the Parliamentary System is that the Prime Minister is accountable to legislative branch and can be removed from his position. | A | 3. Disadvantages of the Presidential System include a divided government and struggles between parties. | A | 4. Some disadvantages of the Parliamentary System is that it offers less protection against tyranny and the Prime Minister is not directly elected by the people. | A | 5. In a unitary system, laws and policies throughout the state are uniform, laws are more easily passed since they need only be approved by the central government, and laws are rarely contradictory since there is only one body making those laws. There are disadvantages of this type of government. The central government may lose touch with or control over a distant province or too much power in the central authority could result in tyranny. | A | 6. In a federal system, a degree of autonomy is given to the individual states while maintaining a strong central authority and the possibility of tyranny is very low. Federal systems still have their share of power struggles between the state and central governments, such as those seen in the American Civil War. | A | 7. Confederate governments are focused on the needs of the people in each state, the government tends to be more in touch with its citizens, and tyranny is almost impossible. Unfortunately, confederations often break apart due to internal power struggles and lack the resources of a strong centralized government. | A |
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