QR Challenge: North Carolina's Industries

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. What is a broiler?	a 3-5 week old chicken
2. What percent of NC's business is agriculture?	35%
3. What counties raise broilers?	Pitt, Wilkes, Nash, Alexander
4. What county in NC relies on the seafood business as a primary income?	Dare
5. How much income does the seafood industry bring into NC?	$65 million
6. How many people in NC are employed in the chemical industry?	49,000
7. What are textiles?	anything that has to do with fabric or fibers
8. Which industry has been our state's largest manufacturing employer for more than 100 years?	textile industry
9. How much money does the textile industry bring into NC?	$22 billion
10. How many factories do we have in NC?	1,200
11. Where is our state's largest scientific research and technology hot spot?	Research Triangle Park
12. What universities make up NC's Research Triangle Park?	North Carolina State, University of North Carolina, Duke University
13. What type of companies can you find in NC's RTP?	biochemical, healthcare, computer-technology, research centers, laboratories
14. Where in NC can you find the 120 factories that make up the furniture industry?	Thomasville, Lenoir, Lexington
15. With which text structure is the article "Thomas Day: Furniture Maker" organized?	chronology
16. What animal in NC is nocturnal and lives in shrubby regions?	gray fox
17. What was the effect of the stock market collapsing in 1929? HINT: You can find it in this week's question!	Great Depression
18. What does "importing" mean?	bringing in goods from other states or countries to be sold in our state
19. What does "exporting" mean?	sending some things we produce to other states or countries
20. What does NC import?	lumber, medicine, coffee, cocoa
21. What does NC export?	cotton, soybeans, sweet potatoes, turkeys, computers, clothing, furniture, chemical products
22. What region of NC can you visit Grandfather Mountain?	Mountain Region

 

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