QR Challenge: Black History Scavenger Hunt

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. Who was the leader of a non-violent moment and first black to have a national holiday?	Martin Luther King Junior
2. Who founded her own college?	Mary McCleod Bethune
3. Who is called the "Father of Black History?"	Carter G. Woodson
4. Who was the first black to run for president?	Jesse Jackson
5. William Dubois was a smart student and hoped to study in what college?	Harvard University
6. Who was the first black to graduate from Yale?	Edward Alexander Bouchet
7. Who was the first black woman doctor in the US?	Susan McKinney
8. Who was the first A-A to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel?	Annie Edson Taylor
9. When did Martin King lead the March on Washington and give his "I Have a Dream" speech?	1963
10. When did Dr King's house was bombed?	January 30, 1956
11. What is Bessie Smith famous for?	The first A-A licensed pilot.
12. Who is Shirley Chisholm?	the first black congresswoman
13. Who founded Famous Amos Cookies?	Wally "Famous" Amos
14. Why was February chosen as Black History Month?	It was chosen in honor of Frederick Douglas and Abraham Lincoln who were both born in February
15. stamp?	Booker T. Washington
16. African American man to become a billionaire?	Robert L. Johnson
17. Lewis Latimer	Invented the carbon filament for the incandescent light bulb. Worked with Thomas Edison.
18. Elijah McCoy	Black Canadian-American inventor who had 57 U.S. patients, most notable for his work with the lubrication of steam engines.
19. Norbert Rilleux	Invented the multiple-effect evaporator.
20. Madame C.J Walker	Created Black cosmetic products. First woman to become a millionaire.
21. George Washington Carver	African American inventor, scientist, botanist and educator. His reputation is based on his outstanding research with soybeans, sweet potatoes and peanuts.
22. J. Standard	African-American inventor of the refrigerator.
23. Rebecca Lee Crumpler	First African American woman to earn a medical degree in the United States.
24. Lewis Temple	African American inventor, blacksmith and abolitionist. He invented the toggling pole that was used on whaling expeditions.
25. Mae C. Jamieson	First African American woman to become an astronaut.
26. Jan Matzeliger	Invented the shoe assembly machines; helped with the mass production of shoes.
27. Ronald McNair	Was a NASA astronaut and physicist; he died on the Space Shuttle Challenger in 1986.
28. Guion Bluford	Engineer, NASA engineer; became the first African American in space.
29. A. Ashbourne	Inventor of the biscuit cutter.
30. Dr. Theodore Lawless	African American dermatologist, philanthropist and medical researcher, known for his work with syphilis and leprosy.
31. Granville T. Woods (1856-1910)	Invented the multiplex Railway telegraph.
32. Percy Julian (1899-1975)	Developed the sympathetic form of cortisone.
33. Dr. Daniel Hale Williams	first African American Cardiologist. He performed one of the first open-heart surgeries in the U.S.
34. Garrett Morgan	Invented the gas mask and the traffic light.
35. Dr. Charles Drew	African American physician, researcher, and surgeon. Pioneered methods in blood transfusions and blood plasma.
36. Sarah Boone	Inventor of the ironing board.
37. Benjamin Banneker (1731-1806)	Mathematician, surveyor, and astronomer, invented the wooden clock in 1753, surveyed original boundaries of Washington D.C., and authored an almanac.
38. Charles Brooks	Invented the street sweeper.
39. Sarah Goode	Received and invented a patent for the folding cabinet bed. First African American woman to receive a patent.
40. Lonnie Johnson	American engineer who invented the Super Soaker, the top-selling toy in 1991 and 1992. This was done while researching thermal transfer energy. He holds over 80 patents.
41. Ernest Just	Worked with the plasma membrane of biological cells.
42. Dr. Alexa Canday	Medical doctor specializing in neurosurgery. First African American woman to become a neurosurgeon in 1981.
43. Dr. Ben Carson	African American neurosurgeon who was first to successfully separate a pair of twins who were jointed at the head.
44. Dr. Justina Ford	Became Colorado's first African American doctor of Obstetrician.
45. Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson	The first African American woman to earn a Ph.D. from MIT and a doctorate in physics.
46. Mark E. Dean	One of the top engineering minds at the International Business Machines (IBM) Corporation. He made his first mark in the industry in the early 1980s, when he and a colleague developed a system that allowed computers to communicate with printers and other devices.
47. Percy L. Julian	Known as the "soybean chemist", for his extraordinary success in developing innovative drugs and industrial chemicals from natural soya products

 

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