QR Challenge: Louisiana History

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. Louisiana has the tallest ? in the nation	state capitol building
2. Louisiana has the tallest ? in the nation	state capitol building
3. The ?L is the longest over-water bridge in the world	Lake Pontchartrain Causeway
4. Louisiana's wetlands are the greatest wetland area in America	6.5 million acres
5. The oldest city in Louisiana founded in 1714	Natchitoches
6. The first bottler of ?, Joseph Biedenharn, lived in Monro	Coca-Cola
7. ? was the site of the an American Revolution battle	Baton Rouge
8. The transfer of the Louisiana Purchase was made at the ? in 1803	Cabildo
9. Louisiana is the No. 1 producer of crawfish and ? in America	alligators
10. Louisiana produces ? of the nation's salt, the most in America	24 percent
11. Much of the world's food, coffee and oil pass through the ?	Port of New Orleans
12. ? holds the second oldest food trademark in the U.S. Patent Office	Tabasco
13. America's oldest rice mill is in New Iberia, Louisiana ?	KONRIKO
14. The Louisiana Hayride radio show helped ? achieve stardom.	Elvis
15. New Orleans is the birthplace of ?	Jazz

 

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