QR Challenge: Nationalism & Sectionalism (Vocabulary) Part I

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. road built by the federal government that extended from Maryland to Illinois	National Road
2. road that requires users to pay a toll	Turnpike
3. connected Lake Erie to the Hudson River	Erie canal
4. A shift from manual labor to mechanized work that began in Great Britain in the 1700s and spread to the United States around 1800	Industrial Revolution
5. young woman who worked in the textile mills in Lowell Massachusetts	Lowell girl
6. identical components that can be used in place of one another	Interchangeable parts
7. protective tariff established by Congress to encourage Americans to buy goods made in the U.S.	Tariff of 1816
8. money or wealth used to invest in business or enterprise	Capital
9. organization of workers	Labor union
10. person who favors native born inhabitants over immigrants	Nativist
11. machine invented to separate the cotton fiber from its hard shell	Cotton gin
12. loyalty or devotion to ones country	Nationalism
13. federal program designed to stimulate the economy with internal improvements and create a self sufficient nation	American System
14. Foreign Policy Doctrine set forth by President Monroe that discouraged European intervention in the Western Hemisphere	Monroe Doctrine
15. Spain ceded Florida to the United States	Adams Onis Treaty
16. 1820 agreement calling for the admission for Missouri as a slave slate and Maine as a free state, and banning slavery in the Louisiana Purchase territory	Missouri Compromise

 

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