QR Challenge: 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. Who was the leader in Europe during the American Revolution?	King George III
2. What act taxed paper, lead and glass?	The Townshend Act
3. How many colonies were involved in the American Revolution?	13 Colonies
4. What was signed to stop the war?	Treaty of Paris
5. Who was the first president of the new United States?	George Washington
6. What was the first major battle in the American Revolution?	Battle of Bunker Hill
7. Who surrendered at Yorktown,PA?	General Cornwallis
8. What does Domino Effect mean?	Each event was caused by something that happened before it.
9. What was the event when the colonists fought in the streets with the British military?	The Boston Massacre
10. When did the colonists dress as Native Americans and dump tea off the ships?	The Boston Tea Party
11. What act taxed the colonists for newspapers, stamps and playing cards?	The Stamp Act
12. When did the American Revolution start?	1775
13. Who is the Parliament?	British version of the USA's congress
14. What does boycott mean?	When you stop buying or using certain products
15. What was the last battle of the American Revolution?	The Battle of Yorktown
16. After what battle did France decide to join in the war?	The Battle of Saratoga
17. Who are the minutemen?	The colonists army
18. Who wrote Common Sense?	Thomas Paine
19. What did the colonists write at the end of the American Revolution?	The Declaration of Independence

 

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