QR Challenge: Navigation Acts

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. This is an economic system that increased money in a country’s treasury by creating a favorable balance of trade	mercantilism
2. To bring into a country without permission is called2	smuggling2
3. Why did England practice mercantilism on the American colonies?3	to make money3
4. What was the purpose of the Navigation Acts?4	to make money4
5. According to the Navigation Acts, all goods had to be carried on_?_.5	English ships5
6. Which products could be sold only to England or English colonies?6	tobacco, wood and sugar6
7. What was the requirement for any European imports?7	they had to pass through England first7
8. How did merchants react to the Navigation Acts?8	they ignored them8
9. How did colonists by-pass these laws?9	they smuggled goods9

 

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