QR Challenge: History

Created using the ClassTools QR Treasure Hunt Generator

Teacher Notes

A. Prior to the lesson:

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

• Download a QR reader (e.g. I-Nigma | NeoReader | Kaywa) onto their mobile devices
• Bring these devices into the lesson.

3. Print out the QR codes.

4. Cut them out and place them around your class / school.

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B. The lesson:

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!

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C. TIPS / OTHER IDEAS

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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Questions / Answers (teacher reference)

Question	Answer
1. Which country held the first Olympic Games?	Greece
2. The telephone was first invented to help the deaf-but do you know who patented the design?	Alexander Graham Bel
3. Who is credited with discovering America?	Columbus
4. Who was the first American President?	George Washington
5. In what year did William the Conqueror become king of England?	1006
6. Who sailed on a voyage of discovery aboard a ship called the "Santa Maria"?	Christopher Columbus
7. In which US state was gold discovered in 1849?	California
8. The Cold War was a War of words and hostility mainly between the USSR and which country?	USA
9. What was the name of the first person to set foot on the moon?	Neil Armstrong
10. Which English lady went to the Crimea to nurse the soldiers and became famous?	Florence Nightingale

 

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