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 time period for the trans atlantic trade? | 1500-1800 | 2. 2)Where did the journey (the middle passage) happen between? | africa to america | 3. 3)What were slaves needed for? | to work for sugar and tobacco farms | 4. 4) Why did the leaders of Africa allow other Africans to be taken as slaves? | They were trading the Africans for goods like rum and weapons. | 5. 5)Over which ocean were slaves transported from Africa to Americas | Altantic |
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