QR Challenge: Review of the New England Colonies

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. The Pilgrims and the Puritans were both religious settlers in the North American colonies. How were the Puritans both similar and different from the Pilgrims in their beliefs?	Puritans and Pilgrims both disagreed with practices in the Church of England, but Puritans did not want to separate from the Church and the Pilgrims did.
2. Only a certain type of person qualified to vote in a Puritan village. Describe the qualifications to vote.	Be a man who owned land
3. The Puritans’ lives centered around religion. They did not welcome anyone who disagreed with their beliefs. What happened to people (like Roger Williams, Anne Hutchinson) who disagreed with the Puritan way of life?	Got expelled
4. Colonists left Massachusetts Bay and settled in Connecticut and New Hampshire. Why were they attracted to these areas? Give 2 reasons.	Fertile farmland, economic opportunity, religious freedom
5. As settlers moved into new areas, they encountered Native American tribes. Disagreements began between colonists and the tribes which led to the Indian Wars. What were the disagreements about?	land
6. In the early 1700’s, 3 major industries led to great prosperity in the colonies. What were these industries?	Fishing & whaling trading shipbuilding
7. Whale blubber was melted down into oil. Why was oil so valuable to the colonists?	Lamps burned longer, brighter, and with no odor
8. When New Englanders caught more fish than they needed, what did they do with the extra fish?	surplus goods used for trading
9. How did trading affect life in North America?	Able to trade goods with other countries, started slave trade, made colonies more prosperous

 

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