QR Challenge: Black History Month

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. Who invented the typewriter?	Burridge & Marshman
2. Who invented the ironing board?	Sarah Boone
3. Who invented the elevator?	Alexander Miles
4. Who invented the traffic signal?	Garrett Morgan
5. Who invented the hair brush?	Lyda Newman
6. Who invented peanut butter?	George Washington Carver
7. Who invented the fountain pen?	W.B.Purvis
8. Who invented lotion and soap?	George Washington Carver
9. Who invented the ice cream mold?	A.L. Cralle
10. Who invented the horse riding saddle?	William D. Davis
11. Who invented the clothes dryer?	G.T. Sampson
12. Who invented the shoe?	W.A. Detiz
13. Who invented the cellular phone?	Henry Sampson
14. Who invented the player piano?	Joseph Dickinson
15. Who invented the television remote control?	Joseph N. Jackson
16. Who invented the stove?	T.A. Carrington
17. Who invented the stethoscope?	Imhotep
18. Who invented the refrigerator?	J. Standard
19. Who invented the mop?	Thomas Stewart
20. Who invented the mailbox?	Paul B. Downing
21. Who invented the lawn mower?	J.A. Burr
22. Who invented the guitar?	Robert Flemming Jr.
23. Who invented the fire extinguisher?	T.J. Marshall
24. Who invented the electric lamp?	Lewis Latimer
25. Who invented the door knob?	O. Dorsey
26. Who invented the air-conditioning unit?	Frederick M. Jones

 

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