QR Challenge: The Groovy 60s

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. 1. Who was the leader of the African American Civil Rights movement of the 1950s & 1960s?	Martin Luther King
2. 2. What philosophy did he use to influence the public?	passive resistance or non-violent resistance to unjust laws
3. 3. Which President used his power and influence to help pass the two most important laws to advance civil rights for African Americans (The Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act)?	Lyndon Johnson
4. 4. Who was the President that set the goal of sending a man to the moon before the end of the decade of the 60s?	John Kennedy
5. 5. The President that said “I pledge to you that we shall have an honorable end to the war in Vietnam” was	Richard Nixon
6. 6. What was the overall reason for the US involvement in the Vietnam War?	stop spread of communism or the Cold War
7. 7. “Hell no, we won’t go”. What were protesters referring to?	not going to fight in Vietnam
8. 8. “Tricky Dick” referred to what political figure of the 1960’s?	Richard Nixon
9. 9. A famous pop artist from the 1960s that created “Four Marilyns”:	Andy Warhol
10. 10. What infamous situation does the rock song “Ohio” refer to?	Kent State murders of 4 antiwar protesting students in 1970

 

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