QR Challenge: Civil War Scavenger Hunt

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. 1. The Northern states and the Southern states fought in the Civil War from 1861 – 1865.	1861-1865
2. 2. Abraham Lincoln was the president of the United States during the Civil War.	United States
3. 3. The president of the Confederate States of America during the entire Civil War was Jefferson Davis.	Confederate States of America
4. 4.The northern states had factories, cities, and railroad lines for transportation.	factories and railroad lines
5. 5. The southern states had large farms producing tobacco and cotton, small towns, and very little industrial development.	tobacco and cotton, industrial
6. 6. The north relied on industry for their economy, while the south relied on slave labor.	industry, slave
7. 7. The Civil War began when Southern troops attacked Fort Sumter,South Carolina.	Fort Sumter
8. 8. The Battle of Gettysburg in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War, nearly 52,000 men were killed, wounded, or missing.	Gettysburg,52,000
9. 9. The Confederacy lost the Battle of Vicksburg, splitting the south in two.	Vicksburg
10. 10. The bloodiest day of the Civil War was at the Battle of Antietam, over 20,000 men were wounded, missing, or killed that day.	Antietam
11. 11. April 9, 1865, General Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, ending the war.	Robert E. Lee, Appomattox Court House
12. 12. April 14, 1865, while watching a play at Ford’s Theater, President Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth. He died the next morning.	1865, Ford, John Wilkes Booth

 

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