QR Challenge: The Stock Market Crash

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
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2. Overproduction and Underconsumption of consumer goods and farm products, Wages did not keep pace with the growth of production, Shaky banking contributed to speculation and an overexpansion of credit.	What are three causes of the stock market crash of 1929?
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4. putting money into something with the hope of profit	What is investment?
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6. Widening gap between the rich and the poor.	What is a consequence of wages not keeping pace with production?
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8. Hoover flags	What were the inside out pockets of the poor called during the Great Depression?
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10. Too much money chasing too few goods.	Inflation
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12. Too little money chasing too many goods.	Recession
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14. Stockholders jumped out of windows.	What was the reaction of many to the news the market crashed?
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16. Black Tuesday, the day the Stock Market crashed.	What is the significance of October 29, 1929?
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18. 40% of banks failed from 1929-1931.	What is one consequence of the stock market crash?
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20. It was a bull market, meaning that stock prices were higher than what their true value would indicate.	Irving Fisher said what mistakenly about the Stock Market?
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22. 89%	How much did the stock market decline following the crash?
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24. Dropped 50%	What happened to international trade?
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26. The rise of the Nazis.	What did the crisis lead to internationally?
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28. $16 Billion.	How much money was lost in October of 1929?
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30. Poverty	What did Herbert Hoover predict would be eliminated in the US?
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32. An investor borrows money to buy a greater amount of stock.	What is buying on a margin?
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34. Herbert Hoover	Who is the president during the Stock Market Crash?
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36. John J. Raskob	Who wrote in a magazine article that Americans should invest $15 a month in the stock market?
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38. Doing so would generate $80,000 over a 20 year period.	Why would you invest $15 a month in the stock market?
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40. Too many people are investing without credit or knowledge.	"You know it's time to sell when shoeshine boys give you stock tips. This bull market is over." What does that mean?

 

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