QR Challenge: Civil Rights 1963-65

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 the fiery Chief of Police in Birmingham, Alabama?	Bull Connor
2. Who said they were sickened by images of police violence in Birmingham?2	President Kennedy2
3. Which civil rights organisations came together at the March on Washington 1963?3	NAACP SCLC SNCC CORE3
4. What happened only a few weeks after the March on Washington?4	Bombing of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church Birmingham4
5. Would it be fair to say that the Mississippi Freedom Summer 1964 was a failure?5	Yes, little increase in blacks registered to vote5
6. Who was the fiery Sheriff in Selma, Alabama?6	Jim Clark6
7. What 2 important pieces of legislation were passed in this period?7	Civil Rights Act, Voting Rights Act7

 

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