QR Challenge: SCHS Black History Month Trivia 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. question	Who was the First black NASCAR driver? answer Wendell Scott
2. question	2 He is believed to be the longest practicing attorney in the United States. He was a Buffalo Soldier who fought in World War I, earned 11 college degrees, including five in law and others in mathematics, history and sociology. He completed his final degree at age 75, and practiced law up until the age of 106. Who is he? answer John Morton-Finney
3. question	3 Who is the first black person to own and operate a major film studio anywhere in the U.S.? answer Tyler Perry
4. question	4 Who is is the first Black woman to lead a cable news network? answer RaShida Jones
5. question	5 Who is the first athlete and the first black person to win an Oscar for Best Animated Short for the film, Dear Basketball? answer Kobe Bryant
6. question	6 Who were the first black rappers to win the first-EVER Grammy for Best Rap Performance? answer Fresh Prince & DJ Jazzy Jeff
7. question	7 Who is the first black woman to be awarded a Michelin star in the Michelin Guide's 93-year history? answer Mariya Russell
8. question	8 Who was the black architect who mastered the art of drawing upside down so that he could sit across from — not next to — white clients who didn’t want to sit side-by-side with a Black person? answer Paul Williams
9. question	9 Who is the black woman that invented the gif? answer Lisa Gelobter
10. question	10 Who is the first black person to lead a symphony orchestra in the United States? answer Henry Lewis
11. question	11 Who was the first man to perform open heart surgery? answerDaniel Hale Williams
12. question	12 Which black organization started a free breakfast program in 1969 to help children get a nutritious start to the day and inspired the national School Breakfast Program? answer Black Panther Party
13. question	13 What's the name of the all-black paramedic service that ran from 1967-1975 and helped establish the national training model for today's EMS ambulance services? answer Pittsburgh's Freedom House ambulance project
14. question	14 What is the name of the black Nasa Physicist who invented 3D Movies? answer Valerie Thomas
15. question	15 Who was the first Black woman in America to earn a four-year college degree? answer Lucy Stanton
16. question	16 Who was the chef that invented the potato chip in 1853? answer George Crum
17. question	17 Who is the richest person in history with a net worth of $400 Billion? answer Mansu Musa
18. question	18 Who was the first American woman to become a self-made millionaire? answer Madame CJ Walker
19. question	19 Who the first back heavyweight champion of the world? answer Jack Johnson
20. question	20 Whose cells became the basis for the first immortal human cell line? answer Henrietta Lacks

 

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