QR Challenge: Timeline 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. If I were to place the dates 1978 and 1945 on a timeline, which one would go first?	1945
2. Write this date "1904" down so you'll have it to use later.	1904
3. What is an artifact?	Something used to show evidence for an event in history.
4. Write this date down. 1817.	1817
5. What is a decade?	10 years
6. What is it called when 100 years have passed?	A century
7. Write this date down. 1918.	1918
8. 1812 and 1920, which would go on a timeline first?	1812
9. Can a picture of a specific place be used as an artifact?	yes
10. Write this date down. 2005.	2005

 

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