QR Challenge: Constitution Day

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. On what day is Constitution Day observed?
2. Which President started Constitution week?
3. The law that requires all public schools to recognize Constitution Day was passed in what year?
4. What was the meeting called where the Constitution was written?
5. In what U.S. city was the Constitution written?
6. Not only does the day celebrate the Constitution, but what else is also recognized?
7. Approximately how many words long is the Constitution?
8. How many pages long is the Constitution?
9. Approximately how many minutes would it take you to read the Constitution?
10. Who was the first to sign the Constitution? Why?
11. How many delegates actually signed the Constitution?
12. Who hand wrote the original Constitution?
13. How much did the individual who wrote the original Constitution get paid?
14. Who is nicknamed the “father of the Constitution”?
15. Constitution day marks the anniversary of what?
16. Which three delegates refused to sign the Constitution?
17. Who was the oldest man to sign the Constitution? Who old was he?
18. What are the famous beginning words of the Constitution?
19. Which state was the first to approve of the Constitution?
20. How many amendments to the Constitution exist today?
21. The original Constitution can be viewed today in which U.S. city and in which building?
22. What was the original Constitution written on? (no, the answer is not paper!)
23. In what building was the Constitution written?
24. What was the average age of the delegates who wrote the Constitution?
25. Approximately how many days did it take to create the Constitution?
26. Which U.S. President purchased the journal that James Madison kept during the Constitutional Convention? For how much?
27. Which state did not send delegates to the Constitutional Convention?
28. What are the first 10 amendments to the Constitution called?
29. Which two delegates who signed the Constitution would eventually become President?
30. What other famous document was written in the same building as the Constitution?

 

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