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.
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| 1. This program paid farmers for not planting crops in order to make the market prices of these crops better and reduce surpluses. | AAA Agricultural Adjustment Act | 2. This program took unmarried men aged 18-25 off government aid and instead had them engage in activities such as planting trees, leaving behind many new parks such as the Blue Ridge Parkway. The program lasted 10 years. | CCC Civilian Conservation Corp | 3. This program employed many men in construction, fixing schools and public works projects around the nation. The program was widely criticized for lackluster work (ie raking leaves), and lasted only a year. | CWA Civil Works Administration | 4. This program set up temporary housing for “Okies” and “Arkies” displaced by the Dust Bowl | FSA Farm Security Administration | 5. This program is still in existence today, and was created to stop “bank runs” by creating confidence in federally backed banks up to 5,000 dollars. | FDIC Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation | 6. This program was created in 1934 as a part of the National Housing Agency, and was supposed to encourage building and construction, and still exists today. | FHA Federal Housing Authority. | 7. This act reversed the reorganization of the Dawes Act of 1887, and tried instead to encourage preservation of Native American lands and customs. | IRA Indian Reorganization Act | 8. This act, also known as the Wagner Act, created the National Labor Relations Board which could protect labor and help with bargaining | NLRA National Labor Relations Act | 9. This act created the National Recovery Administration to promote economic recovery by setting prices and helping businesses stay afloat. It was declared unconstitutional in 1935 by the Supreme Court. | NIRA National Industrial Recovery Act | 10. This created the Social Security Administration, which administered national pensions for the retired, disabled, and unemployed. For the first time, the largest group of people living in poverty was not the elderly. | SSA Social Security Act | 11. This agency helped to build 20 dams, and in the process control flooding, generate hydroelectrical power, increase agricultural production, and revitalize the Tennessee Valley region. | TVA Tennessee Valley Authority. | 12. This was created by the Emergency Relief Appropriations Act, and employed millions of people in public works. It also employed musicians, artists, writers and others creating murals and other federally funded art. | WPA Works Progress Administration. |
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