QR Challenge: International Economics Quiz

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. The US government imposes a tariff on sugar imports. Draw the diagram to illustrate the impact on the market for sugar in America.
2. Tunisia operates a system of import quotas on new cars. Draw an appropriate diagram to illustrate the impact of the quota on the market for new cars in Tunisia.
3. Using an appropriate diagram, explain how US consumers and producers are likely to be affected once import quotas on Chinese textiles are removed.
4. Using an appropriate diagram, explain the effects of subsidies granted to Chinese textiles on Chinese producers and consumers.
5. Using an appropriate diagram, explain how removal of tariffs in the United States may lead to job losses.
6. Using an exchange rate diagram, explain why expansionary monetary policy puts a downward pressure on the value of a currency.

 

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