QR Challenge: Witchcraft

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 offered herbal cures and remedies	wise women
2. What was sold to the Devil in return for supernatural powers	soul
3. Who made witchcraft a serious crime	Henry VIII
4. Who began to persecute witches after 1563	Elizabeth I
5. What English monarch considered himself an expert on witchcraft	James I
6. Name King James' book on witchcraft	Demonologie
7. What religious divide happened in the 16th century	Reformation
8. Christianity split into 2 opposing sects. Name them	Protestants and Catholics
9. What name was given to the 'wrong' religion	heresy
10. What percentage of accused were men	10%
11. What is a fear or hatred of women known as	misogyny
12. What Biblical story depicts women as morally weak	Adam and Eve
13. Who saw women as temptresses	puritans
14. Witch's animal	familiar
15. absolute proof of witchcraft	confession
16. Matthew Hopkin's title	Witchfinder General
17. Hopkin's home town	Manningtree
18. Area of great witch-hunt	East Anglia
19. Year of great witch-hunt	1645
20. Created climate for 17th century witch-hunt	civil war
21. English punishment for witchcraft	hanged
22. what attitude began to replace superstition	scientific
23. What scientific body was set up by King Charles II	Royal Society
24. Last person executed for witchcraft in England	Alice Molland

 

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