QR Challenge: Unit 7 Texas History:Annexation and the U.S. Mexican 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. 1.) The Texas Constitution is modeled after the United States and what state constitution?	Louisiana
2. 2.) Popular Sovereignty means?	The people vote or people have the power
3. 3.) What protects our individual right in Texas?	Texas Bill of Rights
4. 4.) Texas tried to be annexed several times prior to 1845 what was the main reason the U.S. denied Texas	Slavery
5. 5.) What did Texas want to get rid of by being annexed into the United States?	Debt
6. 6.) What U.S. president annexed Texas into the United States?	James K. Polk
7. 7.) James Polk believed in what?	Manifest Destiny
8. 8.) The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ended what war?	U.S.-Mexican War
9. 9.) The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and 15 millions dollars gave the United States what 5 current day U.S. States?	California, Utah,Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado
10. 10.) According to the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo what river is now the border of southern most Texas	Rio Grade
11. 11.) Most slaves were in what parts of Texas?	South and East
12. 12.) What Compromise made the Texas Borders what they are today?	Compromise of 1850
13. 13.) Name an early German settlement that is now a major Texas city?	New Braunsfels
14. 14.) Population is growing during this current era. What is the current era we are studying?	Era of Early State Hood
15. 15.) All European immigrants were coming into Texas by boat. What port or town were they coming into?	Galveston

 

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