QR Challenge: AP Environmental History Laws

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. Established primary and secondary air quality standards. Sets limits and goals to reduce mobile source air pollution	Clean Air Act
2. Established federal authority for emergency response and clean-up of hazardous substances	Superfund, or CERCLA
3. Controls the exploitation of endangered species through international legislation. Bans hunting, capturing and selling of threatened species.	CITES (Convention on International Trade of Endangered Species
4. Protects species that are considered to be threatened or endangered. Includes migratory birds and their habitats.	Endangered Species Act
5. Agreement among 150 nations requiring greenhouse gas emission reduction due to threat of global warming.	KYOTO Protocol
6. Banned the production of aerosols and initiated the phase out of all CFC's and other ozone destroying compounds.	Montreal Protocol
7. In 1964, inspired by John Muir 80 years before, this law allowed congress to set aside federally owned land for preservation as part of the National Wilderness System.	The Wilderness Act
8. Provides for the development and regulation of the uses of nuclear materials and power plants in the US.	Atomic Energy Act (1954)
9. Assures the safety, wholesomeness, efficacy, and truthful packaging and labeling of food, drugs, cosmetics, and medical devices.	FDA, Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (1938)
10. Created Yosemite and Yellowstone National Parks.	National Park Act
11. A company cannot ship oil into the U.S. until it presents a plan to prevent spills that may occur.	Oil Pollution Act
12. President given authority to protect areas of scientific or historical interest on federal lands as national monuments; Teddy Roosevelt used it to protect the Grand Canyon	Antiquities Act 1906
13. This was banned in paint, cooking/eating utensils and toys in 1973.	lead

 

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