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 meant by the term "global interdependence" | a relationship in which the lives of all people are intertwined closely and any one nations problems are part of a larger global problem. | 2. Name one of the early thinkers who was concerned with social order and stability | Comte,Spencer,Martineau | 3. Who coined the term class conflict? | Karl Marx | 4. This person coined the term "Sociology" | Auguste Comte | 5. Who are the three fathers of Sociology? | Max Weber, Emile Durkheim, Karl Marx | 6. This early thinker advocated for racial and gender equality | Harriet Martineau | 7. What theory suggests human societies develop from a conflict between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat? | Marxism | 8. Who coined the term "Survival of the fittest"? | Herbert Spencer | 9. Which thinker believed that it was not just economics that influenced peoples status in society, but religion, education and politics all played a role? | Max Weber | 10. This thinker used racism as the main target of his studies and theories | W.E.B Du Bois | 11. According to Mills, what is meant by the sociological imagination? | The ability to see the relationship between individual experience and the larger society | 12. Where was the first sociology department in Canada? | McGill University |
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