QR Challenge: Ancient India Review

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. a strong wind that blows one way in winter and another way in summer	monsoon
2. a social group that one is born into and cannot change	caste
3. the prince or leader of a tribe	raja
4. mountain range that is home to the highest mountains int he world	Himalaya
5. the written language developed in India	Sanskrit
6. divine law that requires people to preform the duties of their caste	dharma
7. the consequences of how a person lives can be good or bad	Karma
8. a government controlled by religious leaders	Theocracy
9. the idea of passing through many lives to be united with Brahman	reincarnation
10. a state of wisdom	Nirvana
11. The caste system helped them to rule peoples who outnumbered them	Aryans
12. This religion believes that all life is sacred	Hinduism
13. "Life is full of suffering" is one of the	The Four Noble Truths
14. This religion believes that the way to stop suffering is to stop desire	Buddhism
15. In Hinduism, the universal spirit, or creator, is called	Brahman
16. Buddhism was founded by ___________ around 600 B.C.	Siddhartha Gautama
17. The Buddha believed that the only way to find truth was to give up	all desires
18. Which social group is made up of warriors and rulers?	Kshartiyas
19. The Vaisyas are	common people
20. Which social group is above all the others?	Brahmins

 

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