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. True or False- Families must pay a bride price. | 2. False | 3. Who has control over all of the material wealth and land? | 4. Men | 5. Who has possession of all the material wealth and land? | 6. Women | 7. What is the name of the matrilineal groups the society is organized in? | 8. Ma’chong | 9. What is the nokna? | 10. The girl, chosen by her parents, who will care for them and one day inherit all of the wealth, land, and status. | 11. True or False- Women can obtain a divorce. | 12. False | 13. How is this society organized? | 14. Matrilineal | 15. What is matrilineal descent? | 16. A rule of descent relating a person to a group of consanguine kin on the basis of descent through females only | 17. What is ethnocentrism? | 18. A mixture of feeling and belief that one\'s own way of life is desirable and superior to others | 19. What is horticulture? | 20. A subsistence strategy involving semi-intensive, usually shifting, agriculture practices. | 21. What is reciprocity? | 22. The transfer of goods and services between two people or groups based on their role obligations | 23. What is kinship? | 24. The complex system of social relationships based on marriage and birth | 25. What is marriage? | 26. The socially recognized union between two people that accords legitimate birth status rights to their children | 27. What is magic? | 28. Strategies people use to control supernatural power to achieve particular results | 29. What is bride price? | 30. An amount of money or property or wealth paid by the groom or his family to the parents of a woman upon the marriage of their daughter to the groom. | 31. The society is organized in matrilineal groups called ma’chong, which means motherhood (Marak 1997:75). Marak explains the importance and meaning behind the ma’chong as, “Every ma’chong has a common ancestress which gives a sense of attachment and a feeling of oneness to the members of a particular ma’chong,” (1997:75). | 32. Women own all of the money and land, but their husbands are the ones who have the right to use it (Harbison 1989:1001). If a person is unmarried, he or she doesn’t have access or ownership to anything. | 33. A woman will pass all of her property and wealth onto one daughter called the nokna (Harbison 1989:1001). The term nokna is defined at the heiress or the ones who stays in the house (Goswami 1965: 28). | 34. The man’s word in regards to household possessions and property is final, despite the woman having true ownership (Harbison 1989:1001). The man does, however seek the approval of his wife if he is a good husband (Harbison 1989:1001). | 35. There is no dowry, bride price, or marriage payment (Harbison 1989:1001). The agates are only permitted to bring their personal clothing with them when they marry (Harbison 1989:1001). Parents may give them gifts of farm equipment, appliances, baskets or animals, but this is not marriage payment because only parents with the financial ability give, they are in no way required to give gifts (Harbison 1989:1001). | 36. Have a baby girl | 37. Have a baby boy | 38. Have a baby girl | 39. Child sick, lose baby girl | 40. Child marries, lose son |
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