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
4. Cut them out and place them around your class / school.
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!
4. A detailed case study in how to set up a successful QR Scavenger Hunt using this tool can be found here.
Question | Answer |
1. Redistricting | the process by which district boundaries are drawn | 2. Reapportionment | deciding how many seats a state will have in the U.S. House of. Representatives when its population changes. | 3. Census | counting how many people live in areas to see how many representatives they need | 4. Quorum | the minimum number of members of an assembly | 5. Filibuster | a prolonged speech that obstructs progress in a legislative assembly | 6. Cloture | a procedure for ending a debate and taking a vote. | 7. describe the concept of gerrymandering, give your opinion on the practice, and predict the court's decisions | gerrymandering is when the district lines are drawn to help a political cause, I thinks its not fair because they can just take over certain areas for there gain, I think they will not allow it anymore because of the 14th amendment. |
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