QR Challenge: Black History Month Scavenger Hunt: HBCU

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. 4.This university is in Nashville and is a private institution...Fisk	Fisk
2. 5.This university was founded in 1925...Xavier	Xavier
3. 7.Located in VA and founded by American Missionary Association...Hampton	Hampton
4. 9.This university offers a PhD in Optics...Delaware State	Delaware State
5. 10.City that South Carolina State University is located...Orangeburg	Orangeburg
6. 11.West Virginia State University is located in this county...Kanawha	Kanawha
7. 12.Public university in Baltimore...Morgan State	Morgan State
8. 13.Texas Southern University is located in this city...Houston	Houston
9. 14.This university is the oldest HBCU...Lincoln	Lincoln
10. 15.Founded by the First Congregational Society of Washington...Howard	Howard
11. 16.This Land Grant Institution is located in MS and was founded in 1871...Alcorn State	Alcorn State
12. 18.This all female university is located in Atlanta, GA...Spelman	Spelman
13. 1.This university was founded by Booker T.Washington...Tuskegee	Tuskegee
14. 2.This private institution is in Columbia, SC was founded by American Baptists...Benedict	Benedict
15. 3.This university has a Natural Science Department and was founded in 1869...Dillard	Dillard
16. 6.Located in Daytona Beach and founded by Mary McLeod Bethune...Bethune Cookman	Bethune Cookman
17. 8.City that Florida A&M University is located...Tallahassee	Tallahassee
18. 12.This all male institution is located in Atlanta, GA...Morehouse	Morehouse
19. 13.Alabama A&M offers a PhD in Physics and is located here...Huntsville	Huntsville
20. 17.Founded in 1869 and located in Mississippi...Tougaloo	Tougaloo

 

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