QR Challenge: World History 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. Who were the Bedouins?	Arab Nomads
2. What is polytheism?	worshipping more than one god.
3. Who was the Empress of the Tang Dynasty during the campaign in Korea?	Wu Zhao
4. What made it easier to print pages because they no longer had to carve a whole page of letters in order to print?	movable type
5. The Western Roman Empire crumbled in the fifth century when it was overrun by what tribes?	Germanic
6. In 527 a high ranking nobleman succeeded to the throne of the Byzantine Empire. Who was he?	Justinian
7. Otto I called his German-Italian empire what?	The Holy Roman Empire
8. Pope Urban II issued a call for a holy war also called what?	The Crusades
9. The Sahara keeps moving south a little more each year as it is slowly taking over the .	Sahel
10. is a belief system where spirits play an important role in regulating daily life.	Animism
11. By 3400 BC early farmers were growing what in the Americas?	maize
12. The civilization that would take the place of the Olmec would be the .	Zapotec
13. Overseas trade, spurred by the ______________, led to the growth of large city-states in northern Italy.	Crusades
14. The study of classical texts led to ______________, an intellectual movement that focused on human potential and achievements.	humanism
15. In the late 1300s and early 1400s, _________________________ of England and Jan Hus of Bohemia had advocated Church reform.	John Wycliffe
16. What was the Edict of Worms and what was the result?	various
17. the Great ruled Palenque in the 600s.	Pacal
18. The Maya believed that was a burden carried on the back of a god.	time
19. Led by ______________________ of Ghazni, the Turkish armies devastated Indian cities and temples in 17 brutal campaigns.	Sultan Mahmud
20. Akbar’s son called himself _______________ , or “Grasper of the World.”	Jahangir
21. _____________________, the campaign to drive Muslims from Spain, had been completed only 64 years before the Reformation Movement.	The Reconquista
22. What were some of the consequences of Spain's newfound wealth from the Americas?	various
23. The Greek astronomer _________________ expanded the geocentric theory in the second century AD. In addition, Christianity taught that God had deliberately placed the earth at the center of the universe.	Ptolemy
24. An Italian scientist named _______________built on the new theories about astronomy. As a young man, he learned that a Dutch lens maker had built an instrument that could enlarge far-off objects. He built his own telescope and used it to study the heavens in 1609.	Galileo
25. During the 1770s and 1780s, France’s government sank deeply into debt. Part of the problem was the extravagant spending of Louis XVI and his queen, _____________________.	Marie Antoinette
26. Ever since, July 14—________________—has been a French national holiday, similar to the Fourth of July in the United States.	Bastille Day
27. The French colony called _________________ was the first Latin American territory to free itself from European rule.	Saint Domingue
28. Who were the two major liberators in South America?	Simon Bolivar and Jose de San Martin
29. _____________ saw that the usual way of sowing seed by scattering it across the ground was wasteful. In turn he invented the seed drill.	Jethro Tull
30. Around 1764, a textile worker named _________________ invented a spinning wheel he named after his daughter. His spinning jenny allowed one spinner to work eight threads at a time.	James Hargreaves

 

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