QR Challenge: The Amish

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. 1. An Amish farm gives work to all the family	wrong
2. 2. They have private schools	right
3. 3. They go to school for eight years	right
4. 4. They have teachers with a college education	wrong
5. 5. The buggies make traffic slow and dangerous	right
6. 6. They have generators and oil lamps	right
7. 7. They drive vehicles	wrong
8. 8. They have telephones outside	right
9. 9. They don't believe in hospitals	right
10. 10. Church is held in a church building	wrong
11. 11. Young people never meet without their parents	wrong
12. 12. If you're shunned you have to leave the community for ever	right
13. 13. They don't like to discuss their ways	right

 

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