QR Challenge: Chapter 13 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. term used in the 1800s for the region west of the Rocky Mountains. Includes OR,WA,ID and parts of WY, MT and Canada	Oregon County
2. route to Oregon used by wagon trains in the 1800s	Oregon Trail
3. person of Mexican descent born in Texas	Tejano
4. Battle lasting only 18 minutes where Texans were outnumbered but still managed to kill 630 Mexicans and capture 700 more. The next day, Santa Anna was captured forcing him to sign treaty gaining Texas independence.	Battle of San Jacinto
5. Nickname for Texas after it declared independence from Mexico in 1836	Lone Star Republic
6. to add on	annex
7. huge region in the Southwest owned by Mexico in the 1800s	New Mexico Territory
8. route to Santa Fe, New Mexico, that was used by traders in the 1800s	Santa Fe Trail
9. able to produce enough for one's own needs	self-sufficient
10. Belief in the 1800s that Americans had the right and duty to spread across the continent all the way to the Pacific Ocean	Manifest Destiny
11. Mexico had to cede all of California and most of New Mexico; in turn, U.S paid Mexico $15 million and agreed to respect the rights of Mexicans living in those lands.	Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
12. To give up	cede
13. nickname for California after it declared independence from Mexico in 1846	Bear Flag Republic
14. Mexican territory of California and New Mexico that was given to the U.S. in 1848	Mexican Cession
15. strip of land in present day AZ & NM for which the U.S. paid $10million to Mexico in 1853	Gadsden Purchase
16. Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints founded by Joseph Smith in 1830	Mormons
17. one of the more than 80,000 people who joined the gold rush in California in 1849	forty-niner

 

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