QR Challenge: Depression and the New Deal
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.
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!
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.
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 |
Depression and the New Deal: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=A_group_that_helps_those_in_need
Question 1 (of 14)
Depression and the New Deal: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Letting_workers_go_because_a_company_cannot_afford_to_pay_them
Question 2 (of 14)
Depression and the New Deal: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=The_practice_of_buying_something_and_paying_for_it_later
Question 3 (of 14)
Depression and the New Deal: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=A_place_where_people_could_get_free_food
Question 4 (of 14)
Depression and the New Deal: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=This_man_was_elected_president_in_1932
Question 5 (of 14)
Depression and the New Deal: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=FDR_served_this_many_terms_as_president
Question 6 (of 14)
Depression and the New Deal: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=A_plan_that_protects_against_loss_in_return_for_regular_payments
Question 7 (of 14)
Depression and the New Deal: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=This_was_the_name_of_FDR's_plan_for_the_nation's_recovery
Question 8 (of 14)
Depression and the New Deal: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Have_a_mental_or_physical_handicap
Question 9 (of 14)
Depression and the New Deal: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=One_who_favors_change
Question 10 (of 14)
Depression and the New Deal: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=This_black_American_won_four_gold_medals_at_the_1936_Olympics
Question 11 (of 14)
Depression and the New Deal: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=This_movie_showed_there_was_hope_"Somewhere_over_the_Rainbow"
Question 12 (of 14)
Depression and the New Deal: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=This_American_boxer_defeated_Max_Schmeling_in_a_rematch_for_the_heavyweight_title
Question 13 (of 14)
Depression and the New Deal: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=This_German_took_power_and_set_the_stage_for_WWII
Question 14 (of 14)