QR Challenge: APUSH Robber Barons and Industrialization

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. Corruption in the RR that stole $23 million from stockholders	Credit Mobilier
2. Worked on the Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railroads	Irish and Chinese
3. The Golden Spike location	Promontory Point, Utah
4. Pullman Palace Cars	Train cars that hall people
5. Created in 1883 to standardized railroad times	National Time Zones
6. over inflated stock	Stock Watering
7. A group of supposed competitors who work together	Pool
8. Supreme Court case on RR and Commerce	Wabash
9. ICC	Interstate Commerce Commission
10. Person associated with Vertical Integration	Andrew Carnegie
11. Person associated with Horizontal Integration	John D. Rockefeller
12. Person associated with Interlocking Directorates	J. P Morgan
13. The most talented and fittest of people should run a business	Social Darwinism
14. Some people are destined to become rich and help poor people	Gospel of Wealth
15. Acres of Diamonds	Poor People make them selves poor, rich people make themselves rich

 

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