QR Challenge: Mi'Kmaq Scavenger Hunt 2018

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 am I? the Mi'Kmaq are renowned crafts people. The earliest version of myself were made of ask, elm and birch. In 1902 a children's version could be bought in the Eaton Catalogue for 15 cents. I was used to strike a round piece of spruce, which was cut half an inch above and below the branch whorl, into a net.	Hockey stick and puck
2. What am I? The Mi'Kmaq relied on the natural bounty of Mi'Kma'ki for necessities. I am one of the most important resources because I'm lightweight, waterproof, and bug resistant. I have multiple functions from food containers to canoes. I am maskwi.	Birchbark
3. What am I? I was used for hunting and winter travel across landscape and transport without them is dangerous and difficult. I am rounded like an animals paw and have webbing made of sinew or rawhide.	Snowshoes
4. What am I? The waters were the highways providing access to interior Nova Scotia to the Bay of Fundy, the Atlantic Coast and Newfoundland. THer eare two types of me: the ocean going and the river. I am made of birchbark over a light wooden frame. Strong enough for several hundred pounds of weight and yet light enough to carry.	Canoe
5. What am I? I was essential to winter life. The Mi'Kmaw language is verb-based, meaning they describe actions as opposed to the noun-based English that describes things. I am tapaqn which means "to drag along the ground."	Toboggan
6. What am I? Over many generations our knowledge of medicines has grown. We have learned what medicines heal and which will hurt. I am the active ingredient in the pain reliever acetaminophen is found naturally within me. I am tupsi.	Alder
7. What am I? I am made of two. The larger inside is curved, compressing inward, while the smaller outside pushes outward. The combined technique creates multiple compression points, allowing intense energy to shoot one's arrow farther and faster.	Double Bow
8. What am I? I am a food source and medicine. I come from a tapped tree. The Mi'Kmaq taught the Europeans how to harvest me.	Maple Syrup

 

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