QR Challenge: Hunting History

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 is the man credited with the discovery of the New World?1	Christopher Columbus1
2. What was the name of the first English settlement, which was established in the Chesapeake region in 1607?2	Jamestown2
3. Did the Puritans settle in the New World for Religious Tolerance or Religious Reforms?3	Religious Reforms3
4. How many original colonies were there?4	Thirteen4
5. What was the first elected assembly in the colonies?5	House of Burgesses5
6. Who said "Give me liberty, or give me death."?6	Patrick Henry6
7. Which Founding Father conducted an experiment by flying a kite in a thunderstorm to prove that lightning was electricity?7	Benjamin Franklin7
8. What do we call the period of time, in the 18th century, where colonists quest for spiritual renewal challenged old sources of authority and produced patterns of thought and behavior which helped fuel a revolutionary movement in the next generation?8	The Great Awakening8
9. What is another name for the French & Indian war?9	The Seven Years War9
10. What law did parliament pass after the French & Indian War which reserved the land west of the Appalachian Mountains for Native Americans and prohibited whites from settling the same area?10	Proclamation of 176310
11. On what date did the Second Continental Congress sign the Declaration of Independence?11	July 4, 177611
12. Who became the first President of the United States, once the Constitution was ratified in 1788?12	George Washington12
13. What were the first two parties in the American political system?13	The Federalist & Anti-Federalist13
14. What was invented, by Eli Whitney, in 1793 and what institution did this solidify in the South?14	Cotton Gin & Slavery14
15. Who could vote in the presidential election of 1800?15	White males who owned land15

 

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