QR Challenge: Types of Businesses Escape Room

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. Path 1: Ben & Jerry’s is an example of what type of business?:	Path 1
2. Path 1: Why would someone want to start a partnership over a sole proprietorship? Explain your reasoning.	Path 1
3. Path 1: A lemonade stand is an example of what type of business?:	Path 1
4. Path 1: What is the difference between a corporation and a franchise?	Path 1
5. Path 1: Why is a franchise a popular business option? Explain your reasoning.	Path 1
6. Path 1: I am a teenager with experience in a highly skilled trade. I want to open a business and offer my service to people in my area. Which type of business should I start, and why?	Path 1
7. Path 1: What type of business is best? Defend your reasoning.	Path 1
8. Path 2: What is the difference between a corporation and a franchise?	Path 2
9. Path 2: Dunkin’ Donuts, McDonald's, Burger King are examples of this type of business:	Path 2
10. Path 2: Some advantages to this type of business are: limited liability, unlimited life, and specialized management. What type of business is this? What are some disadvantages?	Path 2
11. Path 2: A business type that is owned and managed by one individual who receives all the profits and bears all the losses. What type of business is this? Explain why this point is GOOD and BAD.	Path 2
12. Path 2: In which type of business does one person take all the risks?	Path 2
13. OH NO! Someone in your store trips and breaks their leg. They decide to sue. Who are they suing? Path 2: What type of business is this? Why?	Path 2
14. Path 2: What type of business is best? Defend your reasoning.	Path 2
15. Path 3: Nike, IBM, and Google are examples of this type of business:	Path 3
16. Path 3: Some advantages to this type of business are: brand name, standardized quality, national advertising. What type of business is this? What are some disadvantages?	Path 3
17. Path 3: What is a difference between sole proprietorship and partnership OTHER than the number of people who own the business?	Path 3
18. Path 3: Owned by many people & stockholders, but treated by law as one person:	Path 3
19. Path 3: I have a great idea to create a product. I don’t have a lot of funding, but my friend who is currently a manager of a company said he could donate some of the money I need. What type of business should I start and why?	Path 3
20. Path 3: What is the difference between a corporation and a franchise?	Path 3
21. Path 3: What type of business is best? Defend your reasoning.	Path 3

 

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