QR Challenge: Virginia Studies 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. What were the three major American indian language groups found in Virginia?	Iroquoian,Siouan, Algonquian
2. The natural border between the CP and Piedmont regions where waterfalls and rocks prevent further travel on the river is called what?	Fall line
3. Name the four rivers in Virginia	Potomac, Rappahannock, York, James
4. Location of places can be described in terms such as "next to" and "near" what is this called?	relative location
5. What states border Virginia?	Maryland, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina
6. Who called the people they found in the lands they explored "Indians" because he thought he was in the Indies?	Christopher Columbus
7. Items such as arrowheads, pottery, and other tools that have been found and tell a lot about the people who lived in Virginia are called what?	Artificats
8. This place was the first permanent English settlement in North America	Jamestown
9. What is a trip "all about making money" called?	economic venture
10. When Jamestown was founded in 1607 it was a peninsula with water on three sides, today it has water on all sides and is called what?	an island
11. What were three reasons for choosing the site at Jamestown?	the location could be easily defrended from Spanish, water was deep enough to dock ships, good supply of fresh drinking water
12. Who had the power to grant charters allowing settlement in North America?	The King of England
13. Give three examples of architexture.	barns, churches, homes
14. In what year did Africans arrive in Jamestown against their will?	1619
15. In what year did additional women arrive to Jamestown, making it possible for more settlers to establish families?	1620
16. If the place name Richmond reflects English culture, what culture is reflected in the name Roanoke?	American Indian
17. What is a crop that is grown to sell for money rather than for use by the growers?	cash crop
18. What is known as "Green Gold"?	Tobacco
19. What is the trading/exchanging of goods and services without the use of money?	barter
20. What is buying a good or service now and paying for it later?	credit
21. What is it called when a good or service is owed to another person?	debt
22. What is it called when money is put away to save or to spend at a later time?	savings
23. Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?	Thomas Jefferson
24. What document gave reasons for independence and ideas for self-government?	The Declaration of Independence
25. Who rode on horseback through the backwoods of Virginia to Charlottesville to warn Thomas Jefferson that the British were coming?	Jack JouetteWho was an enslaved African American from Virginia, served in the Continental Army and successfully requested his freedom after the war?
26. Who provided military leadership by serving as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army?	George Washington
27. Who said “…Give me liberty or give me death..”?	Patrick Henry
28. Who is a Virginia who believed in the importance of having a United States Constitution and kept detailed notes during the Constitutional Convention?	James Madison
29. What document did George Mason write?	Virginia Declaration of rights?
30. What document states that all people should be free to worship as they please?	Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom
31. What do we call people who campaigned to end slavery?	abolitionists
32. Who led a revolt against plantation owners in Virginia?	Nat Turner
33. Who supported a secret route that escaped enslaved African Americans took; it became known as the “Underground Railroad”	Harriet Tubman
34. Where did the Civil War end when Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his Confederate army to Union General Ulysses S. Grant in April 1865?	Appomattox Court House
35. What is the separation of people, usually based on race or religion?	segregation
36. What is the unfair difference in the treatment of people called?	discrimination
37. What is the abolishment of racial segregation?	desegregation
38. What is the full equality of ALL races in the use of public facilities known as?	integration
39. Who was a 20th century president who wrote a plan for world peace?	Woodrow Wilson
40. Who was a military leader who created an economic plan to ensure world peace?	George C. Marshall
41. The United States Supreme Court ruled in 1954 that “separate but equal” public schools were unconstitutional. What was this case called?	Brown v. Board of Education
42. Virginia’s government established a policy called __________ __________ which fought to “resist” the integration of public schools.	Massive Resistance
43. Who heads the executive branch for the state and makes sure laws are carried out?	governor
44. What branch is made up of the court system and decides the outcome of cases about people who have been accused of breaking the law?	judicial branch

 

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