QR Challenge: The Colonists' Journey

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. The Pilgrims got permission to start a colony in _______________.	Virginia
2. Before they got off the ship, all the men signed the ____________.	Mayflower Compact
3. __________ of the Pilgrims died in the first few months.	Half
4. Who taught the Pilgrims to catch fish, hunt deer, and plant corn?	Squanto
5. The Pilgrims had a special dinner to celebrate. This meal is where ___________ came from.	Thanksgiving
6. One reason people moved to America was to have religious ___________.	freedom
7. The Pilgrims landed in ______________ instead of Virginia.	Massachusetts
8. What was the name of the ship the Pilgrims used to sail to America?	Mayflower
9. The Pilgrims named their colony _______________.	Plymouth
10. The Mayflower Compact said the colonists would set up a ________________.	government
11. People in England had to pay ______________ to support the Church of England.	taxes
12. The Pilgrims sailed from England to America in what year?	1620

 

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