QR Challenge: Colonial Christmas

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. What did the Puritans sign that said they agreed to follow the rules of the Puritan church?	a covenant
2. What was the purpose of the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut?	to set up a government for the colonies
3. What was the grassy area in the center of a New England village called?	a common
4. Who believed that the government should tolerate people with different religious views?	Roger Williams
5. What was the name of the Wampanoag leader’s son who started the King Philips War?	Metacomet
6. Why did the Native Americans decide to resist the English?	Settlers treated them unfairly and took larger amounts of land.
7. What was a patroon?	Wealthy Dutch men who agreed to bring people to the colonies
8. A person who is granted ownership of a colony was a ____________	proprietor
9. What is the present day name for New Amsterdam?	Manhattan
10. What 3 things did the proprietors offer newcomers?	free land, religious freedom and a voice in their government
11. How did William Penn get the land for Pennsylvania?	King owed Penn’s dad money so when he died the king gave Penn a land grant to repay that debt.
12. What is the Greek meaning for the word Philadelphia?	city of brotherly love

 

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