QR Challenge: Documents of Freedom

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. This document declared that the American colonies wanted to be an independent nation. What is the name of this document?	Declaration of Independence
2. This document guarantees Americans basic freedoms written in 10 different articles. Name this document?	Bill of Rights
3. This document explains how the American people should govern themselves. Name it.	The Constitution
4. This document, signed by Douglass MacArthur, accepted the surrender of Japan, ending World War II.	Instrument of Surrender
5. This document formally declared England\'s surrender to America and recognized America\'s right to exist as an independent country.	Treaty of Paris

 

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