QR Challenge: Communities Change

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. A war fought against the colonists and the country of England was the ______________________.	Revolutionary War
2. Name one invention and explain how it makes life easier or better.	Answers will vary
3. Many immigrants who came to the United States came to the check-point at _________________.	Ellis Island
4. The _____________________ happened when the colonists poured tea into the Boston Harbor.	Boston Tea Party
5. What were 2 things that made life hard for immigrants?	Answers will vary
6. Name one way that people moved out West.	Oregon Trail, Lewis and Clark, covered wagons
7. What was one reason why the colonists wanted their freedom for England?	Answers will vary
8. What were the people called who lived in Jamestown and other towns in the colonies?	Settlers or colonists
9. Name one reason why immigrants were scared to come to America and one reason why they would be excited to come to America.	Answers will vary

 

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