QR Challenge: Social Studies Ch. 13

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. 1. People took this trail if they were looking for religious freedom.	Mormon Trail
2. 2. People took this trail if they were looking for riches through gold.	California Trail
3. 3. People took this trail if they were looking for lush, cheap farmland.	Oregon Trail
4. 4. Eli Whitney invented the?	Cotton Gin
5. 5. The _________________ connected the port of New York with the Great Lakes. (2words)	Erie Canal
6. 6. The first president to come from a state west of the Appalachians was?	Andrew Jackson
7. 7. Jackson passed the _________________________(3 words) kicking out Indians from their homes.	Indian Removal Act
8. 8. This man was elected the first president of the Republic of Texas.	Sam Houston
9. 9. Who won the Battle of the Alamo, the Mexican Army or the Americans.	Mexican Army
10. 10. Which two men from Tennessee came to help the Americans in the fight against Mexican troops.	David Crockett and Jim Bowie

 

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