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.
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| 1. Many believe erroneously that the stock market crash that occurred on Black Tuesday, October 29, 1929 is one and the same with the Great Depression. In fact, it was one of the major causes that led to the Great Depression. Two months after the original crash in October, stockholders had lost more than $40 billion dollars. | a | 2. One cause of the Great Depression was that throughout the 1930s over 9,000 banks failed. Bank deposits were uninsured and thus as banks failed people simply lost their savings.2 | b2 | 3. One of the causes of the Great Depression was that people from all classes stopped purchasing items. This then led to a reduction in the number of items produced and thus a reduction in the workforce. As people lost their jobs, they were unable to keep up with paying for items they had bought through installment plans and their items were repossessed.3 | c3 | 4. One of the causes of the Great Depression was businesses began failing. A change in the tax law led to less trade between America and foreign countries along with some economic retaliation.4 | d4 | 5. One of the causes of the Great Depression was the drought that occurred in the Mississippi Valley in 1930 was of such proportions that many could not even pay their taxes or other debts and had to sell their farms for no profit to themselves. The area was nicknamed \\\"The Dust Bowl.\\\"5 | e5 | 6. One of the effects Of The Great Depression was that after the stock market crash of 1929 and the collapse of more than 40% of American banks by 1933, strict trading and banking regulations were put in place. 6 | e6 | 7. One of the effects of the Great Depression was that Roosevelt introduced work creation programs between 1933 and 1938, designed to help America pull out of the Great Depression by addressing high rates of unemployment and poverty.7 | g7 | 8. One of the effects Of The Great Depression was that when the Dust Bowl conditions in the 1930s led to farmers abandoning their fields, mass migration patterns emerged during the Great Depression, with populations shifting from rural areas to urban centers.8 | h8 | 9. Sharecropping is the assignment of a plot of land to work, and in exchange for the owner a share of the crop at the end of the season, usually one-half. The owner provided the tools and farm animals. Farmers who owned their own mule and plow were at a higher stage and are called tenant farmers; they paid the landowner less, usually only a third of each crop. In both cases the farmer kept the produce of gardens. The sharecropper purchased seed, tools and fertilizer, as well as food and clothing, on credit from a local merchant, or sometimes from a plantation store. When the harvest came, the cropper would harvest the whole crop and sell it to the merchant who had extended credit. Purchases and the landowner\\\'s share were deducted and the cropper kept the difference—or added to his debt.9 | i9 | 10. Negative effects of Sharecropping: Though the arrangement protected sharecroppers from the negative effects of a bad crop, many sharecroppers (both black and white) were economically confined to serf-like conditions of poverty. To work the land, sharecroppers had to buy seed and implements, sometimes from the plantation owner who often charged exorbitant prices against the sharecropper\\\'s next season. Arrangements also typically gave half or less of the crop to the sharecropper, and the sale price in some cases was set by the landowner. Lacking the resources to market their crops independently, the sharecropper was sometimes compensated in scrip redeemable only at the plantation.10 | j10 | 11. The term Jim Crow is believed to have originated around 1830 when a white, minstrel show performer, Thomas \\\"Daddy\\\" Rice, blackened his face with charcoal paste or burnt cork and danced a ridiculous jig while singing the lyrics to the song, \\\"Jump Jim Crow.\\\" Rice created this character after seeing (while traveling in the South) a crippled, elderly black man (or some say a young black boy) dancing and singing a song ending with these chorus words: \\\"Weel about and turn about and do jis so, Eb\\\'ry time I weel about I jump Jim Crow.\\\" Some historians believe that a Mr. Crow owned the slave who inspired Rice\\\'s act--thus the reason for the Jim Crow term in the lyrics. In any case, Rice incorporated the skit into his minstrel act, and by the 1850s the \\\"Jim Crow\\\" character had become a standard part of the minstrel show scene in America.11 | k11 | 12. The Jim Crow laws were state and local laws in the United States enacted between 1876 and 1965. They mandated de jure racial segregation in all public facilities, with a supposedly \\\"separate but equal\\\" status for black Americans. In reality, this led to treatment and accommodations that were usually inferior to those provided for white Americans, systematizing a number of economic, educational and social disadvantages. 12 | l12 | 13. From the 1880s into the 1960s, a majority of American states enforced segregation through \\\"Jim Crow\\\" laws (so called after a black character in minstrel shows). From Delaware to California, and from North Dakota to Texas, many states (and cities, too) could impose legal punishments on people for consorting with members of another race. The most common types of laws forbade intermarriage and ordered business owners and public institutions to keep their black and white clientele separated.13 | m13 |
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