QR Challenge: TCAP Scavenger Hunt

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 is money borrowed by someone that must be paid back?	debt
2. Which form of taxation is used by governments to collect revenue from international trade?	tariffs
3. Commercial or subsistence. In which type of economy do families produce all of their own needs?	subsistence
4. The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated — 4th Amendment. This amendment MOST directly relates to a person’s right to (assembly, privacy, speech, or citizenship)?	privacy
5. Which type of government shares power between state and national governments?	federalism
6. Which political agreement in the Constitutional Convention temporarily reduced conflict between the North and the South? (Kansas-Nebraska Act or Three-Fifths Compromise)	Three-Fifths Compromise
7. What document includes the following guarantees: protection against cruel and unusual punishment, a speedy trial, and a trial by jury?	Bill of Rights
8. Which Supreme Court case established the principle of judicial review?	Marbury vs. Madison
9. What is another term for a set of shared beliefs and practices?	religion
10. Which geographic feature aided the early exploration of Tennessee?	Cumberland Gap
11. What group of Protestants wanted to purify the Church of England?	Puritans
12. Who invented the cotton gin?	Eli Whitney
13. What invention caused the southern states to rely more heavily on slave labor?	cotton gin
14. A history book written by a professor is an example of a primary or secondary source?	secondary
15. Which conflict resulted from competition between two European nations for control of North America?	the French and Indian War
16. The failures of the Articles of Confederation led to what famous American document to be written?	the U.S. Constitution
17. European settlement in North America resulted in the introduction of (new diseases or international trade) for Native Americans?	new diseases
18. Recording daily events in a journal is one way to create a (primary or secondary) source?	primary
19. Which president served during the Mexican-American War, acquired land from Mexico, and added California to the United States?	James K. Polk
20. Which president signed the Indian Removal Act?	Andrew Jackson
21. War Hawks in Congress and impressment of U.S. sailors caused which major conflict?	War of 1812
22. Abolitionist would have been most attracted to which political party (Democratic or Republican)?	Republican
23. Which president purchased the Louisiana Territory from France?	Thomas Jefferson
24. Which battle is considered the turning point of the Revolutionary War?	Saratoga
25. Which issue was addressed in the U.S. Supreme Court case McCulloch v. Maryland (implied powers or desegregation of schools)?	implied powers of Congress
26. What document signed in 1776 officially announced that the United States was breaking away from Great Britain?	Declaration of Independence
27. What are the three branched of government?	legislative, executive, and judicial
28. Who wrote the pamphlet “Common Sense” that influenced many Americans to break away from England?	Thomas Paine
29. What was the belief that it was many Americans’ fate to stretch the nation’s borders to the Pacific Ocean?	Manifest Destiny
30. Which war resulted in the United States gaining independence from Great Britain?	Revolutionary War
31. What is a triangular deposit of water, sand, and soil, usually located at the end of a river?	delta
32. A large mass of ice, formed from accumulated snow, that moves slowly over land?	glacier
33. Which Supreme Court case stated that African Americans were not citizens and that Congress could not prohibit slavery?	Dredd Scott v. Sanford
34. The secession of the Confederate states from the Union contributed to the outbreak of which war?	the Civil War
35. Which amendment guarantees the right to bear arms?	Second Amendment
36. Which amendment says that a citizen does not have to answer questions that might incriminate him/her?	Fifth
37. Which topographical feature allowed Daniel Boone to build a trail through the Appalachian Mountains?	Cumberland Gap
38. Which amendment officially ended slavery in the United States?	13th
39. Together, the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments are known as what?	Reconstruction Amendments
40. Who was Abraham Lincoln’s vice president?	Andrew Johnson

 

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