QR Challenge: International Women's Day Race

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. When did Canadian women get the right to vote? a) 1950 b)1939 c)1925 d)1921
2. Who was the first woman in space? a) Roberta Bondar b) Sally Ride c) Valentina Tereshkova d) Amy Cheng
3. Who was the first woman to win a Nobel prize? a)Wangari Mathai b)Malala Yousafzai c)Caroline Herschel d)Marie Curie
4. At the first winter Olympic Games in 1924 what was the only event that was open to women? a)Speed skating b)Luge c)Figure skating d)Cross-country skiing
5. Who was the first woman to run and finish the Boston Marathon in 1966? a)Wilma Rudolph b)Roberta Gibb c)Larissa Latynina d)Wyomia Tyus
6. Who said "Women's Rights are Human Rights" at the UN Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing … ? a) Hillary Rodham Clinton b) Mother Teresa c) Wangari Mathai d) Laura Bush
7. What was the first play written by an African American woman to be produced on Broadway? a) The Color Purple, by Alice Walker b)The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison c)I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou d)A Raisin in the Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry
8. Who founded the Grey Nuns, or Sisters of Charity, in the province of Quebec in the 1700s? a)Jeanne Mance b)Marguérite d'Youville c)Madeleine de Verchères d)Marguerite Bourgeois
9. Who was the first person to swim across Lake Ontario? a)Gertrude Ederle b)Babe Didrikson c)Marilyn Bell d)Virne Mitchell
10. While long disbanded, which Cdn so,ends basketball team continues to hold the North American record for the sports team with the best winning percentage of all time? a) All American Red Heads Team b) Edmonton Grads c) UBC Thunderbirds d) Laurentian Lady Vees
11. Who was the first modern woman to graduate from medical school? a) Clara Barton b) Elizabeth Blackwell c) Florence Nightingale d) Mary Ewing Outerbridge
12. In what year did Switzerland adopt woman suffrage (the right to vote and hold public office?) a)1893 b)1910 c)1939 d)1971
13. What was the Persons Case in Canada? a) An Anglican church finding for women's ordination b) An order requiring that the census count women as well as men c) A custody battle between Ed and Erma Persons d) Judicial recognition of women as legal persons
14. Who said this: I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration. a)Mary Cassatt b)Artemisia Gentileschi c)Hannah Höch d)Frida Kahlo
15. How many current cabinet members, appointed by Justin Trudeau, are women? (Cabinet has 31 members including the prime minister.) a) 6 b)10 c)13 d)15

 

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