QR Challenge: GenderTour

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. 1. Up to 900 BCE, human cultures are primarily nomadic. Some division of labor exists, but tasks are assigned equal social and cultural value. From 900–600 BCE, the Middle Assyrian Code of law limits women, enforcing fidelity, veiling, and arranged marriages. As farming cultures emerge over the period from 600 BCE–1300 CE, women become objects of trade, and their freedoms are restricted further.
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3. 2. Kings, nobles, and clerics rule over artisans, merchants, and peasants, while individuals support themselves through work done close to the home, primarily on farms. Women’s labor differs from men’s, but men and women work together. No designed value is placed on “women’s work” vs. “men’s work.”
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5. 3. The rise of manufacturing and larger cities separate work from home. The idea of a male “breadwinner” and the economically dependent “housewife” emerge, and new social classes form: laborers without land and urban middle-class landowners. Under English common law (coverture), women belong legally to their husbands during marriage and cannot own property.
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8. 4. Victorian ideals of womanhood reign, emphasizing chastity, upkeep of the home, and raising of children.
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10. 5.1848- Stanton and Mott call the first Seneca Falls Convention for women’s rights; draft the Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments, which calls for women’s right to vote and states that all men and women are created equal
11. 6. 1873-Supreme Court rules that married women can be excluded from practicing law
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14. 7.1850-1860-14 states pass property-law reforms, giving women some rights to own property and land (rights that earlier were forfeited upon marriage)
15. 8. Darwin’s theory of evolution offers alternative explanation for male-female inequalities, shifting from the “Adam’s rib” explanation to a more scientifically based explanation of female inferiority
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18. 9. 1893-New Zealand grants women the right to vote
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20. 10. 1911-Term “feminism” first used
21. 11. 1924- Congress grants Native Americans citizenship
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