QR Challenge: Cause and Effect

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. C – Treaty of Ghent
2. E2 – Andrew Jackson defeated Creek Indians
3. C3 – Battle of York (Toronto)
4. E4 – U.S. secured northern border with victory over larger British forces
5. C5 – Battle of New Orleans
6. E6 – U.S. troops took control of Great Lakes burn York. This action later returned by British burning of Washington, D.C.
7. C7 – British burn Washington, D.C.
8. E8 – Jackson’s forces defeated British. 700 British killed, 1400 wounded. U.S. looses: 8 killed, 13 wounded
9. C9 – Battle of Thames
10. E10 – British and American diplomats agreed on status quo ante bellum
11. C11 – Battle of Lake Erie
12. E12 – Sailing up Patuxent River, British burn Capitol and White House. Dolley Madison saves Washington’s portrait.
13. C13 – battle of Horseshoe Bend
14. E14 – Group of Federalist discussed secession, propose 7 amendments to protect influence of Northeast states.
15. C15 – Hartfort Convention
16. E16 – British naval attack repulsed by Capt. Perry.
17. C17 – British plan 3-part invasion of U.S. : Chesapeake Bay, Lake Champlain, & mouth of Mississippi River
18. E18 – Tecumseh killed in U.S. victory. NW Indians weakened by battle.
19. C19 – Battle of Plattsburgh
20. E20 – British successful in Chesapeake, but fail at Lake Chanplain and at New Orleans

 

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