QR Challenge: Depression and the New Deal

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. A group that helps those in need	Charity
2. Letting workers go because a company cannot afford to pay them	Layoff
3. The practice of buying something and paying for it later	Credit
4. A place where people could get free food	Breadline
5. This man was elected president in 1932	FDR
6. FDR served this many terms as president	4
7. A plan that protects against loss in return for regular payments	Insurance
8. This was the name of FDR's plan for the nation's recovery	The New Deal
9. Have a mental or physical handicap	Disabled
10. One who favors change	Liberal
11. This black American won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympics	Jesse Owens
12. This movie showed there was hope "Somewhere over the Rainbow"	The Wizard of Oz
13. This American boxer defeated Max Schmeling in a rematch for the heavyweight title	Joe Louis
14. This German took power and set the stage for WWII	Adolf Hitler

 

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