QR Challenge: Thanksgiving
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.
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!
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.
Questions / Answers (teacher reference)
Question | Answer |
| 1. False | Answer1
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2. Anyone who was actually there. If they wrote down their story then we could read their firsthand account today. | Answer2
| 3. Only the pilgrims | Answer3
| 4. 1621 | Answer4
| 5. They heard gunshots and came to investigate. | Answer5
| 6. Twice | Answer6
| 7. Captain Thomas Hunt | Answer7
| 8. Charles Robbins, Mistress Robbins, and John Slanie | Answer8
| 9. Brother Luis and Brother Diego | Answer9
| 10. 14 years | Answer10
| 11. In the book, Squanto wants to go to England with Captain Weymouth. In some of the articles, it says that Captain Weymouth captured Squanto and brought him to England. | Answer11
| 12. He joined another Wampanoag tribe but he had lived with white men for so long that he didn't feel like he fit in anywhere. | Answer12
| 13. He spoke both languages and could act as a translator. | Answer13
| 14. Samoset | Answer14
| 15. The Mayflower | Answer15
| 16. The Patuxet | Answer16
| 17. They were killed by disease, probably small pox. | Answer17
| 18. Plymouth, Massachusetts | Answer18
| 19. Massasoit | Answer19
| 20. 1622 | Answer20 |
Thanksgiving: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=False
Question 1 (of 20)
Thanksgiving: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Anyone-who-was-actually-there.-If-they-wrote-down-their-story-then-we-could-read-their-firsthand-account-today.
Question 2 (of 20)
Thanksgiving: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Only-the-pilgrims
Question 3 (of 20)
Thanksgiving: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=1621
Question 4 (of 20)
Thanksgiving: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=They-heard-gunshots-and-came-to-investigate.
Question 5 (of 20)
Thanksgiving: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Twice
Question 6 (of 20)
Thanksgiving: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Captain-Thomas-Hunt
Question 7 (of 20)
Thanksgiving: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Charles-Robbins,-Mistress-Robbins,-and-John-Slanie
Question 8 (of 20)
Thanksgiving: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Brother-Luis-and-Brother-Diego
Question 9 (of 20)
Thanksgiving: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=14-years
Question 10 (of 20)
Thanksgiving: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=In-the-book,-Squanto-wants-to-go-to-England-with-Captain-Weymouth.-In-some-of-the-articles,-it-says-that-Captain-Weymouth-captured-Squanto-and-brought-him-to-England.
Question 11 (of 20)
Thanksgiving: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=He-joined-another-Wampanoag-tribe-but-he-had-lived-with-white-men-for-so-long-that-he-didn't-feel-like-he-fit-in-anywhere.
Question 12 (of 20)
Thanksgiving: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=He-spoke-both-languages-and-could-act-as-a-translator.
Question 13 (of 20)
Thanksgiving: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Samoset
Question 14 (of 20)
Thanksgiving: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=The-Mayflower
Question 15 (of 20)
Thanksgiving: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=The-Patuxet
Question 16 (of 20)
Thanksgiving: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=They-were-killed-by-disease,-probably-small-pox.
Question 17 (of 20)
Thanksgiving: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Plymouth,-Massachusetts
Question 18 (of 20)
Thanksgiving: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Massasoit
Question 19 (of 20)
Thanksgiving: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=1622
Question 20 (of 20)
