QR Challenge: Progressivism Scavenger Hunt

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. What is progressivism?	Progressivism was a movement in America during the late 19th and early 20th centuries that aimed to improve the conditions of the lower working class.
2. What were the goals of progressivism?	(1) to protect social welfare, (2) to promote moral improvement, (3) to create economic reform, and (4) to foster efficiency.
3. What was the Gilded Age?	Period of rapid economic growth, industrialization, and expansion in the United States between 1877 and 1896
4. What were the main issues of the Gilded Age?	Unhealthy and dangerous working conditions, monopolies, and government & business corruption
5. What were some of the biggest issues for workers at the time?	Child labor, long hours, low pay, dangerous work, no benefits or worker protections.
6. What are muckrakers?	Journalists who exposed corruption and wrongdoing to the public
7. Who were key muckrakers that led to Progressive change?	Jacob Riis, Ida B. Wells, Florence Kelley, Ida Tarbell, Lincoln Steffens, and Upton Sinclair among others.
8. What is suffrage?	The right to vote
9. In what year were women finally the right to vote?	In 1920! (with the passage of the 19th amendment)
10. Which presidents were known as "Progressive Presidents?"	Theodore Roosevelt, William H. Taft, and Woodrow Wilson.

 

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