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QR Challenge: Ellis Island

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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

3. Print out the QR codes.

4. Cut them out and place them around your class / school.

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!

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.

Questions / Answers (teacher reference)

Question

Answer

1. List three important facts about immigrants and the trip to America. 1,2,3
2.
3. Why did doctors and health officials board the ship in the harbor before it docked? because
4.
5. How did officers keep track of immigrants and their belongings?because
6.
7. What disease where immigrants checked for as they climbed the stairs,And what special tool did doctor’s use?because
8.
9. What was the Registry Room used for? because
10.
11. Explain what doctors looked for during the medical exam. because
12.
13. List three types of questions that were asked of immigrants who arrived by steamship during the legal inspection. because
14.
15. Why were people who failed the health or legal inspections detained? because
16.
17. Describe how people were separated into three aisles down the staircase of separationbecause
18.
19. How did the Kissing Post get its nickname?because

 


Ellis Island: QR Challenge

https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Ellis Island
Q1/19:

List three important facts about immigrants and the trip to America. &choe=UTF-8

Question 1 (of 19)

 


Ellis Island: QR Challenge

https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Ellis Island
Q2/19:

&choe=UTF-8

Question 2 (of 19)

 


Ellis Island: QR Challenge

https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Ellis Island
Q3/19:

Why did doctors and health officials board the ship in the harbor before it docked? &choe=UTF-8

Question 3 (of 19)

 


Ellis Island: QR Challenge

https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Ellis Island
Q4/19:

&choe=UTF-8

Question 4 (of 19)

 


Ellis Island: QR Challenge

https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Ellis Island
Q5/19:

How did officers keep track of immigrants and their belongings?&choe=UTF-8

Question 5 (of 19)

 


Ellis Island: QR Challenge

https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Ellis Island
Q6/19:

&choe=UTF-8

Question 6 (of 19)

 


Ellis Island: QR Challenge

https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Ellis Island
Q7/19:

What disease where immigrants checked for as they climbed the stairs,And what special tool did doctor’s use?&choe=UTF-8

Question 7 (of 19)

 


Ellis Island: QR Challenge

https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Ellis Island
Q8/19:

&choe=UTF-8

Question 8 (of 19)

 


Ellis Island: QR Challenge

https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Ellis Island
Q9/19:

What was the Registry Room used for? &choe=UTF-8

Question 9 (of 19)

 


Ellis Island: QR Challenge

https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Ellis Island
Q10/19:

&choe=UTF-8

Question 10 (of 19)

 


Ellis Island: QR Challenge

https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Ellis Island
Q11/19:

Explain what doctors looked for during the medical exam. &choe=UTF-8

Question 11 (of 19)

 


Ellis Island: QR Challenge

https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Ellis Island
Q12/19:

&choe=UTF-8

Question 12 (of 19)

 


Ellis Island: QR Challenge

https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Ellis Island
Q13/19:

List three types of questions that were asked of immigrants who arrived by steamship during the legal inspection. &choe=UTF-8

Question 13 (of 19)

 


Ellis Island: QR Challenge

https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Ellis Island
Q14/19:

&choe=UTF-8

Question 14 (of 19)

 


Ellis Island: QR Challenge

https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Ellis Island
Q15/19:

Why were people who failed the health or legal inspections detained? &choe=UTF-8

Question 15 (of 19)

 


Ellis Island: QR Challenge

https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Ellis Island
Q16/19:

&choe=UTF-8

Question 16 (of 19)

 


Ellis Island: QR Challenge

https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Ellis Island
Q17/19:

Describe how people were separated into three aisles down the staircase of separation&choe=UTF-8

Question 17 (of 19)

 


Ellis Island: QR Challenge

https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Ellis Island
Q18/19:

&choe=UTF-8

Question 18 (of 19)

 


Ellis Island: QR Challenge

https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Ellis Island
Q19/19:

How did the Kissing Post get its nickname?&choe=UTF-8

Question 19 (of 19)