QR Challenge: Ms. Ross AP Government Welcome Hunt

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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.

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!

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.

Questions / Answers (teacher reference)

Question	Answer
1. 1. Get your book from Ms. Ross	Done
2. 2. In what Supreme Court decision did the court rule that the courts have the power of judicial review?	Marbury v. Madison
3. 3. Hurricane Isaac delayed what Republican party event?	The Republican National Convention
4. 4. What was Larry Sabato's idea to reform presidential elections?	One 6 year term with option of a 2 year extension if the voters choose it
5. 5. How many electoral votes does Virginia have?	13
6. 6. What is a swing state?	A state that is not overwhelmingly Republican or Democrat and could vote either way
7. 7. How many voting members of the House of Representatives are there?	435
8. 8. How many Senators does Virginia have?	2
9. 9. Who is the current Chief Justice of the Supreme Court?	John Roberts, Jr.
10. 10. How did the Supreme Court rule on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act?	That it was Constitutional
11. 11. Who are the Rep. and Dem. candidates for the open Virginia Senate seat?	George Allen (R) and Tim Kaine (D)
12. 12. How many different kinds of games were there at the Summer Olympics?	302
13. 13. What do weather experts call a widespread, long-lived, straight-line windstorm that is associated with a fast-moving band of severe thunderstorms, like the severe weather we saw here?	Derecho
14. 14. Mitt Romney's vice presidential candidate chairs what committee for the House of Representatives?	Budget
15. 15. Who is President Obama's Secretary of Education?	Arne Duncan
16. 16. What is the name of the club that Ms. Ross sponsors?	OP Buddies
17. 17. Who is Ms. Ross' favorite Founding Father?	Thomas Jefferson
18. 18. What 3 swing states for the 2012 have the most electoral votes?	Virginia, Ohio, Florida