QR Challenge: John de Courcy

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. Where in Normandy did John de Courcy's family com from?	Courcy
2. Which King did John de Courcy fight for?	Henry II
3. Which Kingdom did MacDunlevy control?	Uliad
4. What colour was John De Courcy's horse?	White
5. What birds were on John de Courcy's coat of arms?	Eagles
6. What castle did John de Courcy use as his headquarters?	Carrickfergus
7. Which saint did John de Courcy name a town after?	St. Patrick
8. Who did John de Courcy marry?	Affreca
9. Which two people's heads did John de Courcy have stamped on coins?	Himself and St. Patrick
10. Who became king in 1189	King John
11. Who was ordered to drive John de Courcy out of Ulster?	Hugh de Lacy

 

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