QR Challenge: Abraham Lincoln, “Response to a Serenade” and Excerpts from the “Final Emancipation Proclamation”

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. Why does Lincoln call July 4, 1776 “the birthday of the United States of America”?Given that the War for Independence would not be over until the Treaty of Paris in 1783, what was born on July 4th that Lincoln views as the start of a new nation?	varies
2. Lincoln calls the Southern attempt at secession “a gigantic Rebellion.” What did Lincoln say was its fundamental aim?	varies
3. What does Lincoln say was the fundamental aim of the federal military throughout the Civil War?	varies
4. Identify three words that you had trouble with. Use one of the graphic organizers to help you and your group understand ONE of the words.	varies
5. The Constitution required that fugitive (or escaped) slaves be returned to their masters, a mandate that was enforced by the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. What effect does Lincoln’s Proclamation have on “persons held as slaves” in rebellious areas of the United States?	varies
6. Besides protecting their efforts to “labor faithfully for reasonable wages,” what additional opportunity does the Emancipation Proclamation offer the freed slaves?	varies
7. What reasons does Lincoln give to justify the Emancipation Proclamation? (Recall that at his presidential inauguration, Lincoln declared no intention “to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists.”)?	varies

 

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