QR Challenge: Underground to Canada

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. Number the following events in order from 1 (first) to 4 (last). 1.Julilly and Liza pretend to be boys. 2. Julilly lives at the Hensen plantation. 3. Julilly lives at the Riley plantation. 4. Julilly and Liza meet Levi Coffin.	2,3, 1, 4.
2. How were slaves treated by Massa Riley?	Like animals, beaten, very cruelly.
3. Name the key password passed among members of the Underground Railroad to identify each other.	A friend of friends.
4. Identify and explain what two code words of the Underground Railroad mean.	Baggage, bundles of wood, Conductor, Dried Goods, Drinking Gourd, Flying bondsmen, Operator, Parcel, Station.
5. Who was the head conductor of the Underground Railroad according to Underground to Canada?	Levi Coffin
6. Which two literary terms are described in the following sentence? "It pained like the sting of a hundred bees?"	Simile and Hyperbole.
7. Name the three other slaves who escaped the plantation, along with Julilly.	Liza, Adam, and Lester.

 

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