QR Challenge: Roles of the Government

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 are the 4 roles of the government?	Make laws, Protect the country, Keep Order, and Help Citizens
2. What is a State?	a body of people, living in a defined space, with the power to make and enforce laws, and an organization to do this
3. How does the government make laws?	by providing rules for how things inside the state are run
4. How does the government protect the state?	by providing a military to defend the state against outside attacks
5. How does the government keep order inside the state?	by establishing law enforcement agencies that deal with criminal activity
6. How does the government help its citizens?	by providing services people need

 

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