QR Challenge: Middle School Black History 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. Lewis Latimer
2. Elijah McCoy
3. Madame C.J Walker
4. George Washington Carver
5. J. Standard
6. Rebecca Lee Crumpler	First African American woman to earn a medical degree in the United States.
7. Lewis Temple
8. Mae C. Jamieson	First African American woman to become an astronaut.
9. Jan Matzeliger	Invented the shoe assembly machines; helped with the mass production of shoes.
10. Ronald McNair
11. Guion Bluford	Engineer, NASA engineer; became the first African American in space.
12. A. Ashbourne	Inventor of the biscuit cutter.
13. Dr. Theodore Lawless
14. Granville T. Woods (1856-1910)
15. Percy Julian (1899-1975)
16. Dr. Daniel Hale Williams
17. Garrett Morgan
18. Dr. Charles Drew
19. Sarah Boone
20. Benjamin Banneker (1731-1806)
21. Charles Brooks
22. Sarah Goode
23. Lonnie Johnson
24. Ernest Just	Worked with the plasma membrane of biological cells.
25. Dr. Alexa Canday	Medical doctor specializing in neurosurgery. First African American woman to become a neurosurgeon in 1981.
26. Dr. Ben Carson	African American neurosurgeon who was first to successfully separate a pair of twins who were jointed at the head.
27. Dr. Justina Ford	Became Colorado's first African American doctor of Obstetrician.
28. Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson	The first African American woman to earn a Ph.D. from MIT and a doctorate in physics.
29. Mark E. Dean	One of the top engineering minds at the International Business Machines (IBM) Corporation. He made his first mark in the industry in the early 1980s, when he and a colleague developed a system that allowed computers to communicate with printers and other devices.
30. Percy L. Julian	Known as the "soybean chemist", for his extraordinary success in developing innovative drugs and industrial chemicals from natural soya products.
31. Booker T. Washington	Prominent black American, born into slavery. Was head of the Tuskegee Institute in 1881.
32. George W. Carver	A famous botanist, scientist and educator who did a great work with peanuts.
33. Jackie Robinson	First African American to integrate Major League Baseball, in 1947.
34. Harriet Tubman	Founder and engineer of the undergroound railroad.
35. Sojourner Truth	United States abolitionist and feminist who was freed from slavery and became a leading advocate of the abolition of slavery and for the rights of women (1797-1883)
36. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.	United States civil rights leader and Baptist minister who campaigned against the segregation of Blacks (1929-1968). He preached non-violence and was assassinated by James Earl Ray.
37. Condoleezza Rice	National Security Advisor who was chosen by George W. Bush to replace Colin Powell as the Secretary of State. First women to lead the National security council.
38. Maya Angelou	Acclaimed poet and artist.
39. Sidney Poirtier	First black to win Best Actor Oscar.
40. Arthur Ashe
41. Thomas "Hit Man" Hearns	Boxer, so nicknamed because of his unique build & destructive punches, his 1981 record: 32-0 (30 KOs).

 

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