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QR Challenge: 1950s quiz

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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

3. Print out the QR codes.

4. Cut them out and place them around your class / school.

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!

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.

Questions / Answers (teacher reference)

Question

Answer

1. Rock and roll grew out of the sounds of what style of music?Rhythm and blues
2. The musical West Side Story was about two rival street gangs, the Jets and the Sharks. The story borrowed elements from Shakespeare’s...Romeo and Juliet
3. The most popular American toy in the 1950s was theHula Hoop
4. The government unknowingly encouraged ______ by evicting those from government housing when they surpassed a certain salary amountpoverty
5. To own your own home, live in a safe community, have economic security, and send your kids to a good school was the ___ American dream
6. Period of rapidly expanding birthrates from 1945-1961Baby boom
7. Supreme court case which called for the desegregation of public schoolsBrown vs. Board
8. What made college possible for many returning soldiers?GI Bill
9. What is the GNP?Gross National Product
10. Rock and roll’s first superstarElvis Presley
11. Give 2 advantages to living in suburban communities?Escape crime and congestion in the cities, Better living conditions,Better environment, Income tax deductions, American Dream
12. Give 2 criticisms of suburbia?Lack of individuality, Cookie cutter houses, denied access to minority groups
13. most television shows were adapted fromEarlier radio shows
14. Besides college tuition, what other incentives were in the GI Bill?Low interest home mortgages, Low interest loans to start businesses,
15. Cultural separation between children and their parents was also called...the generation gap
16. The largest public works project in American historyInterstate Highway system
17. A popular music and dance show in the 1950’s. It was hosted by Dick Clark.American Bandstand
18. When moonshiners/bootleggers were trying to outrun the law, what was bornStock car racing was born
19. Transistors made the miniaturization of ____ possibleradios
20. The first artificial satellite launched by the U.S.Explorer I
21. White artists (poets, writers, musicians) in the 1950s who were disillusioned with the materialistic American societyBeatniks or Beats
22. The number of women with jobs outside the home ________ during the 1950’s increased
23. Popular children’s author with such works as The Cat in the Hat and How the Grinch Stole Christmas Theodore “Dr. Seuss” Geisel
24. He developed a polio vaccineJonas Salk
25. What ‘other America’ did Michael Harrington write about?The impoverished portion of American society
26. First African American major league baseball playerJackie Robinson
27. TV’s were in what portion of American homes by the 1950’s3/4ths
28. Quiz shows became less popular whenFraud was discovered on the popular quiz show
29. The Federal Highway Act was passed during which president’s administration?Eisenhower
30. ENIAC- A computer first used by themilitary

 


1950s quiz: QR Challenge

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Question 1 (of 30)

 


1950s quiz: QR Challenge

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Question 2 (of 30)

 


1950s quiz: QR Challenge

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1950s quiz: QR Challenge

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Question 4 (of 30)

 


1950s quiz: QR Challenge

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Question 5 (of 30)

 


1950s quiz: QR Challenge

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Question 6 (of 30)

 


1950s quiz: QR Challenge

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Question 7 (of 30)

 


1950s quiz: QR Challenge

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Question 8 (of 30)

 


1950s quiz: QR Challenge

https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=What-is-the-GNP?

Question 9 (of 30)

 


1950s quiz: QR Challenge

https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Rock-and-roll’s-first-superstar

Question 10 (of 30)

 


1950s quiz: QR Challenge

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Question 11 (of 30)

 


1950s quiz: QR Challenge

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Question 12 (of 30)

 


1950s quiz: QR Challenge

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Question 13 (of 30)

 


1950s quiz: QR Challenge

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Question 14 (of 30)

 


1950s quiz: QR Challenge

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Question 15 (of 30)

 


1950s quiz: QR Challenge

https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=The-largest-public-works-project-in-American-history

Question 16 (of 30)

 


1950s quiz: QR Challenge

https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=A-popular-music-and-dance-show-in-the-1950’s.--It-was-hosted-by-Dick-Clark.

Question 17 (of 30)

 


1950s quiz: QR Challenge

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Question 18 (of 30)

 


1950s quiz: QR Challenge

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Question 19 (of 30)

 


1950s quiz: QR Challenge

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Question 20 (of 30)

 


1950s quiz: QR Challenge

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Question 21 (of 30)

 


1950s quiz: QR Challenge

https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=The-number-of-women-with-jobs-outside-the-home-________-during-the-1950’s

Question 22 (of 30)

 


1950s quiz: QR Challenge

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Question 23 (of 30)

 


1950s quiz: QR Challenge

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Question 24 (of 30)

 


1950s quiz: QR Challenge

https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=What-‘other-America’-did-Michael-Harrington-write-about?

Question 25 (of 30)

 


1950s quiz: QR Challenge

https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=First-African-American-major-league-baseball-player

Question 26 (of 30)

 


1950s quiz: QR Challenge

https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=TV’s-were-in-what-portion-of-American-homes-by-the-1950’s

Question 27 (of 30)

 


1950s quiz: QR Challenge

https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Quiz-shows-became-less-popular-when

Question 28 (of 30)

 


1950s quiz: QR Challenge

https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=The-Federal-Highway-Act-was-passed-during--which-president’s-administration?

Question 29 (of 30)

 


1950s quiz: QR Challenge

https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=ENIAC--A-computer-first-used-by-the

Question 30 (of 30)