QR Challenge: 5th Grade Civil War Review

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. 1. Abraham Lincoln played a significant role as president during the Civil War. Name 3 things that he was known for.	There are many things, but 3 important ones were abolishing slavery through the Emancipation Proclamation, belief in a strong federal government and belief that states couldn’t secede from the Union.
2. 2. What was General William Sherman known for?	Led troops on the March to the Sea, Burning the city of Atlanta and giving Savannah to President Lincoln as a gift.
3. 3. Name three things that General Robert E. Lee was known for.	Commander of the Confederate Army, surrendered to General Grant at Appomattox Courthouse, VA and he was originally asked to command the Union army.
4. 4. What was Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson’s role in the war?	He was 2nd in command to Robert E. Lee, but died before the end of the war.
5. 5. True or False: Ulysses S. Grant was the leader of the Union army and accepted General Lee’s surrender at Appomattox Courthouse.	True
6. 6. True or False: Jefferson Davis was the President of the Confederacy, and was blamed by many people for the South’s defeat.	True
7. 7. What happened during John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry, VA?	He led a raid on an armory with the intention of arming slaves, but a train came through and they let it go. The people on the train reported what was going on when they arrived in Washington. John Brown was caught and later hanged.
8. 8. What were the three main conflicts that eventually led to the Civil War?	Cultural (South was more agricultural and the North was more manufacturing), Economic (South depended on slave labor where the North didn’t) and Constitutional (South had strong beliefs in states’ rights but North believed in strong federal gov’t)
9. 9. Where did General Lee surrender to General Grant?	Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia
10. 10. What was the importance of the book Uncle Tom’s Cabin?	The book showed the evils of slavery and how mistreated most slaves were in the South.
11. 11. Which battle was considered the turning point of the Civil War?	The Battle of Gettysburg
12. 12. Which battle marked the beginning of the Civil War?	Fort Sumter
13. 13. What were some of the advantages of the Union Army?	larger population, more railroads, more resources
14. 14. What were some of the advantages of the Confederate Army?	More experienced military leaders, since most of the battles took place in the South they knew the terrain better, they were usually defending instead of attacking
15. 15. What were some of the effects (good or bad) of the war?	Many men died on both sides, much of the South was destroyed, disease was a huge problem, families in the North and South faced financial ruin when husbands and fathers went off to war and died, Northern farms and industry prospered since they provided supplies for the war effort.

 

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