QR Challenge: Baird's Thanksgiving

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. If they went to school, did pilgrim children go to a school building or were they home schooled?	home schooled
2. What was the main course for the pilgrims first Thanksgiving?	Duck
3. Did the pilgrims sail 3000 or 1000 miles from England to America?	3000
4. How many months after their arrival did it take for the Pilgrims to build 7 houses and a meeting place?	1 month or 10 months
5. Were the Pilgrims were at sea for 30 days or 65 days before landing at Cape Cod?	65 days
6. Were there 50 people, 80 people, or 102 people on the Mayflower?	102
7. Name the type of shoes the Wampanoag wore?	Moccasins
8. From what country did the Pilgrims begin their journey?	England
9. Name one game that the Wampanoag played?	The pin game or Blind Man's Bluff
10. Did the Pilgrim women cook the main course in an electric oven or over an open fire?	over an open fire
11. What year did the Pilgrims set sail for the new land - was it 2000, 1999 or 1620?	1620
12. Where did the Pilgrims and Wampanoag get the meats for the feast?	Hunting
13. The first Thanksgiving was truly a day for WHAT...not for feasting?	Prayer
14. What was the weapon used by Pilgrims to hunt duck?	Fouling Rifle
15. Name two materials used to build the Pilgrim's houses.	wood and straw
16. Pilgrims did not have bathrooms with modern toilets. What did they use?	Chamber pots

 

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