QR Challenge: Texas History Here

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. Located in Houston, it is larger than Central Park in New York City	Memorial Park
2. This 155-acre urban sanctuary provides five miles of walking trails	Houston Arboretum and Nature Center
3. Disguised as a man, she joined the Second Michigan Infantry and served two years as a Civil War private	Sarah Edmonds Grave
4. This was the childhood home of the eccentric subject of the film The Aviator	Howard Hughes House
5. This Victorian castle was built from 1886 to 1892	Bishop’s Place
6. Commissioned in 1914 it was the first to mount anti-aircraft guns, launch an aircraft, and use commercial radar	Battleship Texas
7. This place has housed training and mission control facilities since 1961	Johnson Space Center
8. Originally known as Houston Negro Hospital, this was the first nonprofit hospital for African-American patients and doctors	Riverside General Hospical
9. To raise money for the venture, boosters sell a specially branded barbecue sauce	Buffalo Soldiers National Museum
10. The first cemetery in Austin dedicated soley to African-Americans	Bethany Cemetary
11. This was the first library in Austin, it was turned into a library in 1980	George Washington Carver Museum and Cultural Center
12. This church was the center of the first freedman’s town west of the Mississippi	Sweet Hope Baptist Church
13. This school was opened in 1881 to provide free public education for African-American children in the Gregory Town freedmen’s community	Blackshear Elementary School
14. Martin Luther King Jr. and Lyndon B. Johnson visited this house to discuss the future of the civil rights movement	Juanita J. Craft Civil Rights House
15. This plant closed in 2002 and some of its buildings were imploded in 210	Imperial Sugar
16. Named for a feature on the moon, this opened in 1979 on the 10th anniversary of man’s first lunar landing	Tranquility Park
17. A furniture store was built on the site of Buff Stadium	Houston Sports Museum
18. This grassy knoll was named after civic leader G. B. Dealey	Dealey Plaza
19. The final resting place of the first president of the Republic of Texas	Sam Houston Monument/Sam Houston’s Grave
20. Confederate forces drove Union troops out of this crucial port	Battle of Galveston
21. Texas was declared an independent nation on this site	Washington-on-the-Brazos

 

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