QR Challenge: Reviewing Ethical Theory

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. What is the name given to describe the period of time that Kant lived?	The Enlightenment
2. What is the first formulation of the Categorical Imperative?	Universalisability
3. What is the second formulation of the Categorical Imperative?	Treat humans as ends in themselves
4. What is the third formulation of the Categorical Imperative?	Act as if you live in a kingdom of ends.
5. According to Kant, what kind of statements are moral statements?	Apriori Synthetic
6. What does Kant argue is the highest form of good?	The Good Will - this is, to do one\'s duty for duty\'s sake, not for personal gain.
7. What is the difference between a hypothetical and a categorical imperative?	A hypothetical impertaive does not prescribe or demand any action.
8. According to Natural Moral law, what are the 5 primary precepts?	preservation of life, ordered society, worship God, educate children, reproduction
9. Aquinas argued that both intention and the act itself are important. Explain this using the words exterior and interior acts.	To act in the good way for a bad reason is a good exterior act but a bad interior act.
10. What is meant by Real and Apparent goods?	Aquinas believed all human nature was essentially good as they have NML within them. A mistake in reasonging leads to apparent goods rather than real goods.
11. What are the four levels of law?	Eternal Law, Divine Law, Natural Law, Human Law
12. Define Bentham\'s Principle of Utility	The greatest good of the greatest number
13. According to betham, what is pleasure?	Happines = pleasure minus pain
14. What are the 7 elements of the hedonic Calculus?	intenisty, duration, certainity, remoteness, chance of sucession, purity, extent
15. How does Mill define the Greatest Happiness principle?	The GHP holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness.....\"

 

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