QR Challenge: Chapter 9 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. Why was the Red River War known as \\\"The Wrinkled Hand Chase\\\" to the Plains Indians? pg. 262	The damp, cold autumn made their hands look wrinkled.
2. Who first brought cattle to Texas? pg. 267	Spanish Explorers
3. What was the name for cowhands who rode back and forth along the borders of a ranch? pg. 269	line riders
4. What were Spanish cattle herders called? pg. 276	vaqueros
5. Which invention helped ranchers keep their prize cattle from wandering away? pg. 277	barbed wire
6. Why is Margaret Borland remembered today? pg. 276	She was the first woman to drive cattle to Kansas.
7. What industry was helped when railroads were built through forests? pg. 285	the lumber industry
8. Why were many Texan towns built about 30 miles apart? pg. 284	Railroad crews drilled water wells every 30 miles to supply water for steam engines.
9. What did every major city in Texas have by 1900? pg. 286	a population of more than 10,000
10. Why did the people of Clarendon move their houses more than five miles in 1887? pg. 286	to be nearer to a busy railroad route

 

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