QR Challenge: A History of US, Volume 8

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. Once an inexpensive method was found to this metal, railroad lines and skyscrapers were built. What was this metal?	steel (produced from iron)
2. What is the term for when a single corporation controls an industry and has no competitors?	monopoly
3. What did Elisha Otis develop?	the first elevator
4. In what industry did Andrew Carnegie make his money?	steel
5. Who invented the skyscraper?	Louis Sullivan
6. In what industry did John Rockefeller make his money?	oil
7. What is John Roebling known for?	He and his son built the Brooklyn Bridge
8. What is Frederick Law Olmstead know for?	He is the landscape architect who designed Central Park in NYC
9. Which French people donated most of the money for the Statue of Liberty? The rich, poor, or middle class?	middle class
10. Why was the Statue of Liberty not welcomed at first by the American people?	Because Americans were being asked to pay for the construction of the pedestal.
11. According to the author, what was the main flaw shared by the nine presidents following the Civil War?	They were weak.
12. In the late 1800s, what types of people got together to form the new political party called the People's Party or Populist Party?	poor whites, poor blacks and farmers
13. Name at least two goals fought for by the People's Party.	secret ballots, women's right to vote, direct election of senators, US government loans to farmers, active role played by government to protect citizens economically, gov't protection against unsafe goods, gov't protection against unfair business practices, US currency based on silver reserves, US currency based on the whole economic output (production) of the country
14. Who ran for president as both a Populist and a Democrat in 1896?	William Jennings Bryan (this combination destroyed the Populist Party)
15. What new development allowed people living in rural areas to buy goods previously only available in cities?	catalog purchasing (Montgomery Ward, Sears)
16. What effect did the new industries (textiles, steel production, farm equipment manufacturing, car manufacturing) have on where people lived?	more people starting living in the cities
17. What disaster struck Chicago in 1871?	Great Chicago Fire
18. What was the difference between the membership of the American Federation of Labor and the Industrial Workers of the World?	Members of the AFL were skilled; membership in the IWW was open to any worker
19. What term is used for an investigative journalist?	muckraker
20. What is the term used for news stories, untrue but sensational, designed only to sell newspapers?	yellow journalism
21. What construction project greatly reduced the amount of time it took to ship goods by water from the east coast to the west coast of the United States?	Panama Canal
22. What did Samuel Gompers establish?	American Federation of Labor
23. What was the name of the woman who lost her children and husband to disease and went on to be an advocate for workers' rights and safer working conditions?	Mother Jones
24. Who was Sam McClure?	A magazine publisher who provided a place for muckrakers to present their work.
25. Who founded the Industrial Workers of the World?	Big Bill Hayward
26. Who founded the Hull House in Chicago to help immigrants and the poor?	Jane Addams
27. What was the alternate animal name for Theodore Roosevelt's Progressive Party when he ran for President in 1912?	Bull Moose Party

 

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