QR Challenge: First Americans

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. What two continents did the Beringia land bridge link?	Asia and North America
2. When did migration over the land bridge stop?	around 10,000 years ago
3. Why did people who crossed over to North America move south?	followed animals
4. What is a civilization?	group of people living together with systems of government, religion, and culture
5. How long did the Ancient Pueblo civilization last?	about 800 years
6. What is a glacier?	a huge, thick sheet of slowly moving ice\\
7. What is movement from one region to another?	migration
8. What is agriculture?	farming
9. What is a clan?	a group of related families
10. What is a surplus?	extra

 

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