QR Challenge: USA HISTORY TIMELINE

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. Osama bin Laden’s followers use airplanes to attack the World Trade Center and Pentagon. The USA goes to war in Afghanistan to find bin Laden and the terrorists that work with him.	30
2. Columbus lands in North America. This is the beginning of lasting contact between Europeans and the New World.	2
3. The United States removes its military from Vietnam. America was unsuccessful in stopping a communist takeover in Vietnam.	27
4. White Europeans travel to North America to make a new home for themselves. They are called colonists and their new settlements became the original 13 colonies. One example is the Pilgrims, who settled at Plymouth.	3
5. Nomadic people from Asia travel to North America across a land bridge that no longer exists today. They are the first people to arrive in North America. Their descendants are known as Native Americans.	1
6. The U.S. Government buys a lot of land through the Louisiana Purchase. America is now twice as big.	6
7. Americans debate if God created man or man evolved over millions of years. The Scopes Trial happens when a teacher is arrested for teaching evolution in his classroom.	16
8. Martin Luther King gives his “I have a Dream” speech in Washington, D.C.	25
9. America fights a war with Mexico and gets more land in the southwest.	7
10. Slavery ends with the 13th Amendment to the Constitution at the end of the Civil War. Thanks to the 14th and 15th Amendments, African Americans are now full citizens and black men can vote.	9
11. America gains more land in the Spanish-American war. America is now an empire and has more power around the world.	10
12. Founded by W.E.B Du Bois, the NAACP forms to promote rights for African Americans.	11
13. The stock market crashes. So many Americans lose their jobs and homes that the country sinks into the Great Depression.	17
14. The Panama Canal is a huge project to open up a waterway between North and South America. Boats can now travel between the two continents instead of going all the way around.	12
15. American women get the right to vote with the passing of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution.	15
16. Nazi Germany seeks to eliminate European Jews through a system of concentration (death) camps. 6 million Jewish people are murdered in a genocide that is called the Holocaust.	19
17. The U.S. Constitution replaces the Articles of Confederation and outlines the way America’s government will work. George Washington becomes America’s first President.	5
18. The Southern states want to form their own country, so they break away and say that President Lincoln is not their president anymore. The South would like to keep slavery and the North disagrees. The two sides fight in the Civil War.	8
19. Hitler’s Nazi Party takes control of Germany. Germany invades Poland and other European countries. World War II begins, but America does not join in until Japan attacks Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.	18
20. America fights communism in Korea, defending South Korea from the communist north.	21
21. People in Montgomery, Alabama use a peaceful boycott to protest racial segregation on busses.	23
22. East Germany, controlled by the communist Soviet Union (former Russia), builds the Berlin Wall to keep people from leaving their country	24
23. American astronaut Neil Armstrong walks on the moon.	26
24. The USA bans alcoholic beverages with an amendment to the Constitution. Alcohol is illegal in America for the next 14 years.	14
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26. Germany surrenders, but WWII does not end for the USA until after it drops two atomic bombs on Japan, killing hundreds of thousands of Japanese people. Japan surrenders and the war is over.	20
27. The Berlin Wall is taken down and the Soviet Union breaks apart. The former Soviet Union is now called Russia again. Smaller territories are also now their own countries.	28
28. Fighting between European countries is severe. After a few years, America gets involved too. World War I includes brutal trench warfare and is also the first time planes were used in a major war.	13
29. The USA invades Iraq for the first time during the Gulf War, defending Kuwait against an Iraqi invasion.	29
30. The colonists get tired of being controlled by their home country, Great Britain. They want to be independent. Thomas Jefferson writes the Declaration of Independence and colonists fight in the Revolutionary War to become their own country. America is born.	4
31. The United States invades Iraq for the second time to remove its leader, Saddam Hussein. The USA fears that Iraq will use advanced weapons to attack the United States or to support terrorists who will do the same.	31
32. The US Supreme Court rules that racial segregation is illegal in the Brown v. Board of Education trial.	22

 

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