QR Challenge: Henry VIII

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. How old was Catherine of Aragon when she got engaged?	3 years old
2. What were the names of Catherines parents?	Ferdinand and Isabella
3. When was Catherine of Aragon married to Arthur?	14 november 1501
4. Why did Catherine of Aragon get married again to Henry?	Arthur died
5. How many of Catherine of Aragon and Henry survived?	1 - a girl
6. Why was Catherine and Henry's marriage annuled?	because she only had a girl and he fell in love with Anna Boylen
7. What was the name of Henry's second wife?	Anne Boylen
8. Did Anne Boylen give birth to boys who survived?	no only girls
9. Why did Anne Boylen marry Henry before his marriage to Catherine was annuled?	because she was pregnant
10. When was Anne Married to Henry?	25 january 1533
11. Why was Anne killed	so that Henry could marry someone else
12. When was Jane and Henry married?	30 may 1536
13. Which number wife was Jane?	third
14. When did Jane become pregnant?	1537
15. Did Jane have a boy or a girl?	a boy
16. When did Jane die	24 october 1537
17. Which wife was henry's first "true wife"?	Jane Seymour
18. Why did Henry marry Anne of Clever?	to secure an alliance
19. When was Anne of Cleves and Henry married?	6 january 1540
20. Which wife took the title of “King’s sister” after her marriage to Henry ended?	Anne of Cleves
21. Did Henry think Anne of Cleves was beautiful?	no
22. Why did Henry and Anne of Cleves divorce so quickly?	because she was a bad match
23. Which marriages was the shortest?	the one to Anne of Cleves
24. How old was Catherine Howard when she became a lady-in-waiting?	18
25. When did Catherine Howard get married to Henry?	28 july 1540
26. What did Henry call Catherine Howard?	his “rose without a thorn”
27. Why was Catherine Howard executed?	because she was unfaithful
28. How old was Catherine Parr when she became a widow?	35
29. Who was the last wife of Henry?	Catherine Parr
30. Catherine Parr was the first woman to become queen of both _____ and _____?	England and Ireland
31. When did Catherine Parr and Henry marry?	12 july 1543

 

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