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 French established the territory known as New France along what major geographical feature? | along the Saint Lawrence River in Canada;New France which was Ohio River valley to the Mississippi River and up into Canada. | 2. What was the motivation for French exploration? What were they looking for? | Northwest passage, getting wealthy from trade with the Native Americans, discovering the east coast of North America, by discovering and claiming the Saint Lawrence River, and by creating a colony based along that river;mainly concerned with fishing & trapping;France set up a fur trade with Native American to gain wealth in “New France which was Ohio River valley to the Mississippi River and up into Canada. | 3. Why are the French known as the "Friendly French?" Explain the impact French exploration had on natives. | Had a good relationship with Native Americans,Learned their language,Married Indian women,Respected their ways,Tried to convert the Native Americans for Catholicism,They did not try to change their customs,Did not push Indians off their lands, had business with them | 4. In the 1500s and 1600s, European Explorers search for this direct water route to the Americas, between the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean along the northern coast of North America that was virtually impassable because it was covered by thick, year-round sea ice? | The northwest passage | 5. In 1663, New France became a royal colony, a colony under the direct control of a________ ? | King/monarch | 6. Who was the French explorer who sailed up the St. Lawrence River hoping it would lead to the pacific ocean? | Jacques Cartier | 7. René-Robert Cavelier de La Salle traveled down the_______________(major body of water) all the way south to Gulf of Mexico, claiming the region for France calling it “Louisiana” in honor of King Louis XIV? | Mississippi River | 8. Why was the Louisiana Territory a strategically significant territory? | the possibilities for shipping, rich port city, shipping furs from the Mississippi Valley downriver to New Orleans for quick delivery to Europe. | 9. Contrast the French and Spanish expeditions. Are they more alike than different, or vice versa? | While both in search of new sources of wealth, the Spanish brutally conquered and enslaved the natives, where the French made natives a part of their daily lives, respected them | 10. What was the main source of wealth for New France? | Fur trading or the sale and exchange of animal furs (like beaver pelts; trading furs with Native American tribes in North America. | 11. Explain the significance of the word "tenant" in the term tenant farmer | someone who rents a property from a landlord,part of the year they work for their lord and pay rent and the rest of the year they work for themselves. | 12. What type of settlement did the French establish along the Saint Lawrence River | New France was made up of Estates along the St. Lawrence River | 13. Who is considered the "father of New France" and why? | Samuel de Champlain |
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