QR Challenge: The American Revolution

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 overthrow of a government	revolution
2. able to be free or independent	liberty
3. a person sent to represent others	delegate
4. to accept	ratify
5. the act of betraying one's country	treason
6. the right to act, speak or think as one wants	freedom
7. a change	amendment
8. free from outside control	independent
9. a person who betrays a country	traitor
10. having the power to make laws	legislative
11. the ruler of Britain	King George
12. a Boston lawyer who argued strongly for independence	John Adams
13. he wrote the Declaration of Independence	Thomas Jefferson
14. he wrote the pamphlet Common Sense	Thomas Paine
15. a traitor who fought for America and then switched sides to fight with Britain	Benedict Arnold
16. leader of the Continental Army and first President of the United States	George Washington
17. gave a speech and said "Give me Liberty, or Give me Death"!	Patrick Henry
18. nickname given to women who provided water to the soldiers	Molly Pitcher
19. gave Washington's army the confidence to continue fighting	Battle of Trenton
20. this was known at the turning point of the war	Battle of Saratoga
21. the last major battle of the war that forced Britain to surrender	Battle of Yorktown
22. a plan for government that gave limited power to Congress	Articles of Confederation
23. the deal made to split Congress into the Senate and the House of Representatives	Great Compromise
24. the branch of government that settles conflict about the laws	Judicial Branch
25. the branch of government that suggests, enforces and carries out the law	Executive Branch

 

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