QR Challenge: Ellis Island
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.
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!
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.
Questions / Answers (teacher reference)
Question | Answer |
1. List three important facts about immigrants and the trip to America. | 1,2,3
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2.
| | 3. Why did doctors and health officials board the ship in the harbor before it docked? | because
| 4.
| | 5. How did officers keep track of immigrants and their belongings? | because
| 6.
| | 7. What disease where immigrants checked for as they climbed the stairs,And what special tool did doctor’s use? | because
| 8.
| | 9. What was the Registry Room used for? | because
| 10.
| | 11. Explain what doctors looked for during the medical exam. | because
| 12.
| | 13. List three types of questions that were asked of immigrants who arrived by steamship during the legal inspection. | because
| 14.
| | 15. Why were people who failed the health or legal inspections detained? | because
| 16.
| | 17. Describe how people were separated into three aisles down the staircase of separation | because
| 18.
| | 19. How did the Kissing Post get its nickname? | because |
Ellis Island: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=List_three_important_facts_about_immigrants_and_the_trip_to_America.
Question 1 (of 19)
Ellis Island: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=
Question 2 (of 19)
Ellis Island: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Why_did_doctors_and_health_officials_board_the_ship_in_the_harbor_before_it_docked?
Question 3 (of 19)
Ellis Island: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=
Question 4 (of 19)
Ellis Island: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=How_did_officers_keep_track_of_immigrants_and_their_belongings?
Question 5 (of 19)
Ellis Island: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=
Question 6 (of 19)
Ellis Island: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=What_disease_where_immigrants_checked_for_as_they_climbed_the_stairs,And_what_special_tool_did_doctor’s_use?
Question 7 (of 19)
Ellis Island: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=
Question 8 (of 19)
Ellis Island: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=What_was_the_Registry_Room_used_for?
Question 9 (of 19)
Ellis Island: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=
Question 10 (of 19)
Ellis Island: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Explain_what_doctors_looked_for_during_the_medical_exam.
Question 11 (of 19)
Ellis Island: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=
Question 12 (of 19)
Ellis Island: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=List_three_types_of_questions_that_were_asked_of_immigrants_who_arrived_by_steamship_during_the_legal_inspection.
Question 13 (of 19)
Ellis Island: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=
Question 14 (of 19)
Ellis Island: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Why_were_people_who_failed_the_health_or_legal_inspections_detained?
Question 15 (of 19)
Ellis Island: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=
Question 16 (of 19)
Ellis Island: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Describe_how_people_were_separated_into_three_aisles_down_the_staircase_of_separation
Question 17 (of 19)
Ellis Island: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=
Question 18 (of 19)
Ellis Island: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=How_did_the_Kissing_Post_get_its_nickname?
Question 19 (of 19)