QR Challenge: The Events of the American Civil War

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. What was the name of Robert E. Lee’s beloved horse during the civil war?	Traveller.
2. When the Federal government confiscated General Lee’s ancestral estates after the war, what were they turned into?	Arlington National Cemetery
3. Which Union General\'s distinctive facial hair gave birth to the name \'sideburns\'?	General Burnside
4. What was General Sherman\'s middle name?	Tecumseh
5. What northern general was described to President Lincoln in 1861 as \'a drunken wooden-headed tanner\'?	U.S. Grant
6. After Vicksburg, fell to the Unionists in 1863, it refused to celebrate 4th July until which year?	1945
7. Who was the last surviving Unionist veteran of the Civil War?	Albert Woolson (d. 1956)
8. Who refused to use pepper on his food, saying it made his left leg itch?	General \'Stonewall\' Jackson
9. “Stonewall” Jackson’s cousin, William Jackson, also had a nickname, but it was much less flattering. What was it?	‘Mudwall’
10. Which inventor produced the first machine-gun during the Civil War?	Dr. Richard Gatling
11. Who was the only civilian killed at Gettysburg?	Jennie Wade
12. How many men were in a Company?	100
13. How many Companies were in a Regiment?	10
14. What did the Confederates call the Battles of Bull Run?	The Battles of Manassas
15. What did the Confederates call the Battle of Antietam?	The Battle of Sharpsburg
16. What was the name of the play President Lincoln attended the night he was assassinated?	Our American Cousin.
17. Who was known as \'Little Napoleon\'?	General George B. McClellan
18. What disease did President Lincoln contract right after the Gettysburg Address?	Smallpox
19. How old was John Wilkes Booth when he killed Lincoln?	24
20. Which Unionist General described Lincoln as ‘nothing more than a well-meaning baboon’?	George McLellan

 

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