QR Challenge: Turn of the Century Vocabulary

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. Inventor of the telephone	Alexander Graham Bell
2. Inventor of the electric light bulb	Thomas Edison
3. Inventor of the airplane	Wright Brothers
4. Had a monopoly on the oil industry	John Rockefeller
5. Had a monopoly on the steel industry	Andrew Carnegie
6. Had a monopoly on the railroad industry	JP Morgan
7. Used the assembly line to mass produce automobiles	Henry Ford
8. Taught black farmers how to raise better crops	George Washington Carver
9. Person who starts a business hoping to make a profit	entrepreneur
10. To have complete control of an industry	monopoly
11. Method of production in which a product rolls past the workers and each does a specialized job	assembly line
12. Time in history in which new inventions led to new industries	Industrial Revolution
13. Good that one country buys from another	import
14. People who work	human resources
15. Person who buys and uses good and services	consumer
16. Money, tools and machines used to produce goods	capital resources
17. Economic system in which people are free to start their own businesses and own property	free enterprise
18. To do one job well	specialization
19. Resources found in nature	natural resources
20. Value of what must be given up	opportunity cost
21. People who make goods	producers
22. When a product is easy to get	surplus
23. Amount of product available to buy	supply
24. Good that one country sells to another	export
25. Things people do for others	services
26. Amount of product that people are willing to buy	demand
27. Total amount of things a group of people can make	productive capacity
28. Items people make and use	goods
29. Person who buys goods or services	consumer

 

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