QR Challenge: Movement and Migration

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. An agreement between countries or groups of people	treaty
2. An opening between mountains	pass
3. A line connecting waterfalls of nearly parallel rivers that marks a drop in land level	Fall line
4. A place where ships can dock safely	harbor
5. Low wet land where cattails, tall grasses and other similar plants grow	marsh
6. A person who first settles a new place	pioneer
7. a point of land reaching out into the ocean	cape
8. a settlement started by people who leave their own country to live in another land	colony
9. Gold seekers who arrived in California in 1849	forty-niner
10. Power produced by rushing water	water power
11. Gift of Land	land grant
12. The process of removing gold from a water source	panning
13. A narrow strip of water leading into the land from a larger body of water	inlet
14. People living in colonies	colonists
15. Journey into an area to learn more about it	expedition
16. Why did European settlers come to the New World	k
17. How did settler adapt to their new environment	k
18. Why did they choose Plymouth Colony and Massachusetts Bay colony location	k
19. Why were the Middle Colonies considered a melting pot	k
20. Who did Thomas Jefferson choose to explore the Louisiana Purchase	Lewis and Clark
21. How was faster communication needs met in 1800s	Pony Express
22. A slow moving body of water	bayou

 

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