QR Challenge: Welcome to AP 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. Who are the Republican nominees for Pres and VP	Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan
2. Who is the Republican nominee for VA's open US Senate seat	George Allen
3. Who is the Demoncrat nominee for VA's open US Senate seat	Tim Kaine
4. Was the Supreme Court's ruling on the healthcare law this summer that it is constitutional or unconstitutional	It is constitutional
5. There are how many members of the House of Representatives	435
6. What was Larry Sabato's idea about changing the Presidential term	S/he would serve one 6 year term with the possibility of a 2 year extension
7. How many votes does Virginia have in the Electoral College	11
8. If you were running for President and only had time to visit three swing states, which would you go to	Ohio, Virginia, and Florida have most electoral votes
9. The idea of self-government is in the first three words of the Constitution. What are they	We the People
10. What is the rule of law	Everyone must obey and respect the law, no one is above it
11. What is a check on the federal government to prevent it from becoming tyrannical	checks and balances, separation of powers, federalism
12. Why do some states have more Representatives than others	because it is based on population
13. How many Senators does Virginia have	two
14. Who is the current chief justice of the Supreme Court	John Roberts, Jr.
15. What Supreme Court case determine the principal of Judicial Review	Marbury v. Madison
16. Who wrote the Declaration of Independence	Thomas Jefferson
17. What is the official name of the healthcare law, sometimes referred to as Obamacare	Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
18. How many kinds of games were there in the summer olympics	302
19. Go get your book from Ms.Ross	Done

 

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