QR Challenge: Roles of Women in the American Revolutionary 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. Codename for women or women spies working with Culper Spy Ring	355
2. Most common roles for women were(3)	cooks, maids, laundresses, water bearers, seamstresses, nurses, spies
3. Famous woman soldier who fought under the alias Robert Shurtliff	Deborah Sampson
4. Mothers of George Washington she was strong willed	Mary Ball Washington
5. She set up sewing circles of officers wives	Martha Curtis Washington
6. She gave up her Loyalist family, married at 14, she shared her and her husbands food with soldiers	Lucky Flucker Knox
7. She wrote political plays, advised generals, she pushed for schools and education for women	Mercy Otis Warren
8. "Heroine of Battle of Cowpens"	Catherine Moore Barry
9. Female version of Paul Revere	Sybil Ludington
10. She established "Ladies of Philadelphia"	Esther de Berdt Read
11. She continued firing a coannon after her husband was killed. she is buried at the U.S. Military Academy	Margaret Cochran Corbin
12. She protected soldiers passing through a she was a Quaker	Hannah Blair
13. She supplied water to the troops	Molly Pitcher
14. This job ha d a day of .24 a day. There were 10 of these per 100 wounded or sick	nurses
15. Ladies wee called this b/c they followed the Army looking for food and protection usually wives, daughters and moms of soldiers	camp followers

 

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