QR Challenge: Big Business -6th Grade Social Studies

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. Carnegie	Made huge money making steel
2. Pittsburgh	City Carnegie made first steel factory in
3. freeenterprise	system where people can start their own businesses
4. consumer	person who buys or uses goods and services
5. Westinghouse	formed an electric company to compete with Edison
6. Hearst	thought of new ways to make money in the newspaper business
7. CapitalResources	tools and machines that companies use to make goods
8. JPMorgan	the most rich banker in the U.S.
9. HumanResources	people who work to produce goods and services
10. Rockefeller	made millions by getting a monopoly in the oil business
11. monopoly	a company that has total control of an industry
12. Cleveland	city where Rockefeller built his first oil refinery
13. CJWalker	the first African American woman to become a millionaire
14. stocks	shares of a company
15. investor	someone who gives money to a company hoping to make money
16. railroads	the nation\'s first businesses to become corporations
17. Birmingham	city in Alabama where much steel was made
18. Bessemer	British man who invented a better process of making steel

 

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