QR Challenge: What Do You Know?

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. Who was president of the United States during the Civil War?	Abraham Lincoln
2. Who was president of the Confederate State during the Civil War?	Jefferson Davis
3. Who was president of the Continental Congress and first signer of the Declaration of Independence?	John Hancock
4. Where did the American Revolution begin?	Lexington, Massachusetts
5. In what year did the Civil War begin?	1861
6. In what year did the Civil War end?	1865
7. In what year did the American Revolution begin?	1775
8. In what year did the American Revolution end?	1783
9. What treaty ended the American Revolution?	Treaty of Paris
10. In what year was the first permanent English settlement in America established?	1607

 

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