QR Challenge: World History Reiew

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. 6) Gautama is the founder of which religion?	Buddhism
2. 7) Martin Luther's document which led to the Protest Reformation	95 Theses
3. 8) Religion with its origins in the Harappan Civilization	Hinduism
4. 9)This person was a figurehead in feudal Japan	emperor
5. 10) Major world religion with Jesus as a central figure	Christianity
6. 11) Major world religion with the prophet Muhammed as a central figure	Islam
7. 12) Chinese philosophy that follows the five relationships	Confucianism
8. 13) "Great" man who presided over the expansion of Greek influence (Hellenic, Hellenic)	Alexander
9. 14) Means "between two rivers" - in this case, the Tigris and Euphrates	Mesopotamia
10. 15) Wedge-shaped writing of the Sumerians	cuneiform
11. 16)Means "rebirth" in Italian	Renaissance
12. 17)Inventor of the printing press	Gutenberg
13. 18) Ruler-people happy-bad things happen-people replace-new ruler-and so on	dynastic cycle
14. 19)Legendary ruler of ancient Mali (the one with all the gold)	Mansa Musa
15. 20) Explorer who "tried" to circumnavigate the globe	Magellan

 

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