QR Challenge: (About.com) Famous Entrepreneurs

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 started as a person-to-person business selling everything from pens to picture frames has grown to over 200 stores in 31 countries, employing over 75,000 people and generating over 12 billion in annual sales.
2. Howard Hughes
3. Ben & Jerry's
4. Coco Chanel
5. Music Mogul Millionaire
6. Debbi Fields
7. First Female African-American Millionaire
8. Bill Gates
9. Making Beauty Into Big Business...and the daughter of immigrants
10. Walt Disney
11. Michael Deli
12. Wayne Huizenga
13. Harvey McKay
14. Demonstrates one of the most important entrepreneurial traits: the ability to stand back up when you fall down.
15. Henry Ford
16. Mary Kay Ash
17. Oprah Winfrey
18. Anita Roddick
19. Adam Osborne

 

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