QR Challenge: Revolutionary Era Review

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. This document was the first attempt to limit the power of monarchs in England	The Magna Carta
2. What ideas do we give John Locke credit for	natural rights
3. Separation of Powers is the philosophy of which Enlightenment thinker	Montesquieu
4. Describe the Social Contract and which Enlightenment thinker is responsible for these ideas	Rousseau
5. What document are King William and Queen Mary forced to sign before they are placed on the throne in England	The English Bill of Rights
6. Discuss the causes of the French Revolution	cost of bread, etc.
7. Who is Maximilien Robespierre and what is his role in the French Revolution	Committee of Public Safety, etc.
8. Why do the American Colonists want to separate from England and become independent	Taxation without representation
9. Discuss the significance of the Sugar Act, the Stamp Act, and the Townshend Acts	Direct taxes on goods
10. What are the Coercive/Intolerable Acts and why are they significant	push colonists closer to independence
11. Describe the Boston Tea Party	tea in Boston Harbor
12. Describe the Boston Massacre	5 people die
13. What is "the shot heard 'round the world" and why is it important	Lexington/Concord
14. What role does the Enlightenment play in the establishment of the United States of America	foundational ideals
15. How does the American Revolution influence the French Revolution as well as others around the world	shows that it can be done
16. What are some of the reasons why the United States is successful in defeating the British in the War for Independence	home turf, leadership, tactics, ideology
17. Identify two individuals from the Enlightenment and two from the Scientific Revolution and discuss their role	see notes
18. Explain the significance of the Era of Revolution	everything changes
19. Why do the Puritans dislike the Catholic Church	people can directly talk to God. Extravagance of the Church
20. How were the Stuarts different from the Tudors	Tudors worked with Parliament, Stuarts would not
21. Who is Thomas Jefferson and why is he important to the American Revolution	philosophy and Declaration of Independence
22. Who is Jean Paul Marat	demagogue
23. Describe the Committee of Public Safety	Reign of Terror
24. Why do the French people not like Marie Antoinette	extravagant lifestyle, no heirs for a long time
25. Why is the Magna Carta significant for the United States	gives a basis for structuring a government that gives power to parliament, etc.

 

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