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.
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1. Describe what ships had to rely on before the steam boat came along? | The current of the water or strong winds to propel the ships.1 | 2. Name the 3 political parties that formed during the antebellum period in Louisiana3 | Democratic-Republicans, Whigs, and Know-Nothings3 | 3. Why was the Louisiana Constitution rewritten in 1845?4 | To address the economic depression from the Panic of 18374 | 4. Identify and describe a conflict that existed between the Creoles and Americans during the antebellum era5 | electing legislators having translators or conflict over where to move capital5 | 5. In 1849, what happened to the capital6 | moved from Donaldsonville to Baton Rouge6 | 6. Identify and describe two causes of the cultural conflicts among the people of antebellum Louisiana 7 | Language and religion, Catholics versus Protestants and English and French7 | 7. Describe what happened to the Caddo Indians8 | They moved to Oklahoma8 | 8. Define the meaning of the word Compromise9 | When one group gives way a little in its demands to another group to settle a disagreement9 | 9. Who designed the old state Capitol building, and what was it designed to look like10 | James Dakin designed it to look like a castle10 | 10. What event created Louisiana’s first strong interest in national political parties11 | The presidential campaign under Andrew Jackson11 | 11. Describe which political party in Louisiana supported Andrew Jackson, and why?12 | Democratic-Republicans12 | 12. Define what suffrage means, and who it applied to in 1828?13 | Extending the right to vote to all white males overtwenty-one13 | 13. What causes led to the Louisiana Constitution to be rewritten again in 1852?14 | The constitution of 1845 was too undemocratic and banking concerns14 |
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