QR Challenge: Age Contact QR Codes

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. When did Pineda map the Texas Coast?	1519
2. Which explorer established Fort St. Louis?	La Salle
3. Who mapped the TX Coast?	Pineda
4. Which explorer was ship wrecked and captured by natives?	Cabeza De Vaca
5. What were the 3 G’s?	God, Gold, Glory
6. Where did La Salle land on the TX Coast?	Matagorda Bay
7. What year did Cabeza De Vaca report on Texas?	1537
8. What is the term for a Spanish explorer who searched for wealth and land in the Americas?	Conquistador
9. What is a journey undertaken by a group of people with a definite purpose?	Expedition
10. What were the years of the Era of European Exploration?	101500-160010
11. Which group of people were motivated to settle the Americas to find the 3 G’s?	Spanish
12. Which group of people were motivated to settle the Americas to monitor Spanish, establish trade networks, gain land, and spread religion?	French
13. Which explorer conquered the Aztecs?	Cortes
14. Which explorers’ colony failed because he not chart the Mississippi River, he was attacked by Spanish pirates, and one of his ships ran aground and lost supplies?	La Salle
15. When was San Antonio founded?	1718
16. What is the Spanish word for cowboy?	Vaquero
17. What physical feature influenced where missions and presidios were founded?	Rivers
18. What did towns grow around?	Missions and presidios
19. What was the main reason Europeans wanted to explore the Americas?	Gold
20. Which explorer went with Cabeza de Vaca and then took his own expedition into Florida?	Narvaez

 

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