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
4. Cut them out and place them around your class / school.
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!
4. A detailed case study in how to set up a successful QR Scavenger Hunt using this tool can be found here.
Question | Answer |
| 1. What case ruled that segregated schools are inherently unequal? | Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka | 2. What is FERPA? | Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act | 3. What is the Buckley Amendment? | FERPA | 4. What does FERPA guarantee? | The law guarantees that parents have access to their children’s school records? | 5. What does FERPA prohibit? | Prohibits the release of records without parental permission except to those who have legitimate “right to know.” | 6. Why did Congress pass FERPA? | Because of abuses in the use of student records, especially the tendency of schools to provide access to the records to outsiders but to deny it to students and their parents. | 7. What is the Falvo v Owasso case? | A parent, Ms. Falvo, asked the school to prohibit peer grading, which embarrassed her children. When the school refused she went to court. The Supreme Court ruled correcting a classmate’s work can be as much a part of the assignment as taking the test itself. It is a way to teach material again in a new context. By explaining the answers to the class as the students correct the papers, the teacher not only reinforces the lesson but also discovers whether the students have understood the material. | 8. | 9. Must schools follow due process procedures in short suspensions of students? | Students must receive due process for both serious and minor disciplinary matters. | 10. | 11. What do we generally mean when we refer to due process for teachers? | It generally requires that before a teacher is deprived of any substantial liberty or property interest, there ought to be adequate notice and a hearing before an impartial tribunal where the teacher’s side of the conflict is presented. | 12. What is New Jersey v. T.L.O.? | A 1985 Supreme Court Case examining the issue of how the 4th Amendment applies to a school setting. | 13. What is Goss v. Lopez? | The Supreme Court ruled in 1970-71 that schools must follow due process even in cases of short student suspensions. | 14. What is Safford v. Redding? | In 2009 the Supreme Court ruled a strip search to be unconstitutional. | 15. What components of due process are required? | Adequate notice, Hearing, Representation, Right to findings/conclusions and right to appeal. | 16. What was the U.S. Supreme Court addressing in the Mt. Healthy decision? | Whether there are legitimate grounds, other than First Amendment rights, that school districts can consider when deciding not to extend tenure to a teacher. | 17. | 18. Is there a distinction between tenured and probationary teachers in the right to due process? | Yes. Tenured teachers are afforded more due process rights than probationary teachers. | 19. | 20. What federal law did the Jackson v. Birmingham case address? | Title IX | 21. What is statutory law? | Laws that are created by state legislatures. | 22. What is constitutional law? | Laws that are established by court decisions that are based on state or the U.S. Constitution. | 23. What is RIF? | Reduction in Force | 24. When does the contract become legally binding? | When the school board approves the contract. | 25. Who and what sets the standards for teacher certification? | State law | 26. When can teachers be fired for insubordination? | When they deliberately defy school authorities or violate reasonable school rules. | 27. Are all tenure laws the same in every state? | No. Each state determines its own tenure laws. | 28. What constitutional protections apply in teacher dismissal cases? | Teachers have liberty and property rights under the U.S. Constitution | 29. What are some examples of "cause" in dismissing teachers? | Incompetency,Misconduct in office, Willful neglect of duty, Insubordination |
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