QR Challenge: The Constitutional Principals

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. There are five parts to the First Amendment. It includes those rights that Americans believe are among the most important individual freedoms. List the five below: _____________ ______________ _______________ _______________ ______________	speech, religion, press, petition, assembly
2. The original language of the Bill of Rights is not hard to understand. Which amendment prohibits excessive bails?	8th amendment
3. According to the timeline, on what day were the first 10 amendments to the Constitution - the Bill of Rights - officially approved (ratified)?	1791
4. After the Tea Party, the angry British passed the "Coercive Acts" and sent more troops to Boston, where they were quartered in people’s homes. What did the American colonist call this series of harsh laws?	Quartering Act
5. According to the Fourth Amendment, police searches can only be conducted with a judge’s permission. What is the name given to that permission?	warrant

 

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