QR Challenge: constitution

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 consists the Senate and House of Representatives?	Congress
2. What Article deals with where all legislative power should lay?	Article I
3. How often are people elected to the House of Representatives?	Every 2nd year
4. Which Article dealt with the sole power of impeachment?	Article I
5. How many senators did each state get?	2
6. How often were a third of senators re-elected?	Every 2 years
7. Who was president of the Senate?	The vice-president
8. How long is a president able to rule?	4 years
9. Where is the executive power in the US held?	A president
10. Which Article dealt with the election of the president?	Article II
11. Where was judicial power held in the US?	One Supreme Court
12. Which Article deals with the power of the Supreme Court?	Article III
13. Which Article dealt with the admission of new states?	Article IV
14. What did Article V deal with?	Amendments
15. How many states were needed to propose an amendment to the Constitution?	Two thirds of both houses
16. How many states were needed to ratify an amendment?	Three-fourths
17. What did Article VI state about the Constitution?	That it was supreme law
18. How many states were needed to ratify the first constitution?	Nine
19. When was the Constitution ratified?	17th September 1787
20. When did the first 10 amendments come into effect?	1791
21. What did Amendment I deal with?	Freedom of speech and worship
22. Why might Amendment II be controversial?	It gives the right to keep and bear arms
23. What did Amendment IV state?	It was against unreasonable searches

 

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