QR Challenge: Byzantine Empire

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. Kievian leader who battled the Polovtsy	Vladimir Monomakh
2. Mongols short term occupation of which two countries	Hungary and Poland
3. Founder of the Mongols	Genghis Khan
4. Became the ruler of Russia at age 3	Ivan IV
5. Also known as the Grand Prince	Ivan I
6. Known as the "Autocrat by the grace of God"	Ivan III
7. Leader of the Russian Orthodox Church	Metropolitan
8. Known as the "Third Rome"	Moscow
9. Constantinople was the perfect location for what	trade
10. The Four Books of the Justinian Code	Code Digest Institutes Novellae
11. What is a dowry	amount of money wife brings to a marriage
12. Did the Justinian Empire have a civil service system?	yes
13. To ban someone from a religion	excommunicate
14. language spoken in Roman catholic church	Latin
15. Those that believe Icons are a heresy	iconoclasts
16. An icon can be a picture of what three things	Jesus Mary saints
17. Who won the Battle of Manzikert?	Turks
18. Who won the war with Khwarizmi	Mongols
19. Which group attacked Constantinople in 1204	Crusaders
20. Chariot racing track in Constantinople	Hippodrome
21. The Byzantine Empire provided a what between Europe and Asia	protective barrier

 

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