QR Challenge: Local Government

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. This local community would NOT have its own self-government	Hamlet of Deadwood
2. If you were a town councilor, you would NOT be responsible for	Managing the town’s finances
3. A local council will consider a law this many times before it is passed or defeated.	three
4. The local government does NOT provide the funding for THIS service.	schools
5. For the local government, taxes, user fees, permits, and grants are all sources of ____________.	revenue
6. This person is appointed by the other councillors to lead the council.	reeve
7. Located north of us, this local minority group has its own self-government.	Paddle Prairie Métis Settlement
8. A candidate running in an MD (County) election is trying to win the majority of his/her ___________.	Ward
9. Rosary School is a _______________________ school.	separate
10. To become a candidate in an election, you have to first be ____________________.	nominated
11. Margaret Michaud is our _______________ on the HFCRD school board.	trustee
12. Manning Elementary School is a ____________________ school.	public
13. This person is elected to lead the council by the community’s voters.	mayor
14. This is the very first step in the creation of a bylaw.	A motion is introduced at a council meeting.

 

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