QR Challenge: OLYMPICS 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. These were the types of houses that many people first built when they moved to the mid-west?	Sod houses
2. This group began as a social group for farmers but eventually developed into a political party?	Populist
3. Name the speech given by the Democratic/Populist candidate that stated the importance of farmers to the nation.	Cross of Gold Speech
4. Who invented the telephone?	Alexander Graham Bell
5. Who perfected the electric light bulb?	Thomas Edison
6. What business did John D. Rockefeller control?	Standard Oil Company
7. This is the theory that only the best businesses will survive while weaker ones are eliminated?	Social Darwinism
8. This is the practice of giving away large sums of money to charitable causes?	Philanthropy
9. Which political party dominated the office of the Presidency between 1860 and 1908?	Republican
10. This new foreign policy centered on the idea of establishing colonies around the world to increase trade?	Imperialism
11. Alfred Mahan wrote an influential book about the need for this?	A Navy
12. Name the volunteer cavalry unit organized by Theodore Roosevelt to go to Cuba?	Rough Riders
13. Ida B. Wells ran a campaign against this illegal activity?	Lynching
14. Name the government agency which was created as a result of Sinclair’s book?	FDA
15. What new weapon did the German government begin to use against trade that angered world opinion?	U-Boat
16. Name the British ocean liner that was sunk by Germany that angered many Americans?	Lusitania
17. What group saw a dramatic rise in its membership during this period of fear and change in the 1920’s?	KKK
18. This term describes the new young independent woman of the 20’s?	Flappers
19. These were illegal clubs that served alcohol?	Speakeasies
20. Name the new type of American music which truly emerged in the 20’s?	Jazz
21. Who became President in 1928?	Hoover
22. This was a group of WW I veterans who came to Washington DC to ask Congress for their pension?	Bonus Army
23. He was the reform governor of NY who would be elected President based on a campaign promise of helping the average man?	FDR

 

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