QR Challenge: Segregation within American Schools

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. students were not guaranteed a book that they could read or learn from if they were “colored”. Sections of the book could have been missing, the book itself falling apart, or the content outdated. White students were given all the privileges and resources, “colored” students were rejected from learning	textbooks
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3. due to Plessey V. Ferguson, separate but equal was considered constitutional. Classrooms were separated, with white students getting all the new technologies and materials, with “colored” students getting the reject desks and books	classroom
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5. consult image A in your packet	drinking fountains
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7. consult image B in your packet	restrooms
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9. consult image C in your packet. This woman was arrested for trying to read a book in a white library just because she was not white	library
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11. consult image D in your packet. waiting rooms were separated, parents or students called to the office had to sit in their designated area base doff the color of their skin	waiting room in main office
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13. Much like the infamous Rosa Parks stand on the bus, students riding to school were segregated on the bus, with “colored” students forced to sit in the back	bus stop
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15. if you were “colored”, you could not play on the same sports teams as white students. Many schools did not offered colored sports teams, so you could not play a sport if you were not white	athletics
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17. consult image E in your packet.if your ride was late picking you up after school, if you were considered “colored” you could not sit and wait for them on the benches outside of the school	public bench
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19. students who achieved well academically could only be recognized for scholarships or excellence awards of they were white. If you were considered “colored”, the wall of pictures, names, and trophies was denied to you	academic awards

 

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