QR Challenge: French Absolutism

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. Which European prince made the most effective use of absolutism?	Frederick William
2. What is the state of nature?	A mythical place created by Thomas Hobbes to explain why society was created
3. What was the French policy of placing the needs of the state over the privileges of groups?	Raison d'etat
4. What was Versailles?	The French palace of Louis XIV
5. Which group was excluded from power during the reign of Louis XIV?	The nobility
6. What was the greatest error of Louis XIV?	Persecution of the Huguenots
7. What did Peter the Great secularize?	The Orthodox Church
8. How did Peter the Great attempt to compete with Western countries?	By westernizing Russia
9. How did Peter the Great create a standing army?	By conscription
10. Who was really the power during the reign of Louis XIII?	Richelieu
11. Who was the administrator that guided Louis XIV?	Cardinal Jules Mazarin
12. Why was the Glorious Revolution glorious?	It was bloodless
13. Who replaced James II?	William and Mary of Orange
14. Why is Oliver Cromwell important in history?	He was a military dictator
15. According to John Locke, what are the three natural rights?	Life, liberty, and property

 

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