QR Challenge: 7th Grade Final (Vocab)

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 right to vote is known as what?	Suffrage
2. Sharing of power between central gov and the states is known as what?	Federalism
3. A system that keeps branches of government from becoming to powerful.	Checks and Balances
4. The first governing document of Plymouth Colony was named what?	Mayflower Compact
5. What was the first elected legislative body in the U.S. (British American Colonies)?	House of Burgesses
6. George Washington established an important _____________ by creating departments in the executive branch.	Precedent
7. What is money owed to the U.S. called?	National Debt
8. National skill of managing international relations with other countries is called what?	Diplomacy
9. Feelings of pride and loyalty to a nation is called what?	Nationalism
10. A time of peace, pride, and loyalty between 1815-1825 is known as what?	Era of Good Feelings
11. Period of expanding democracy in the 1820s and 1830s.	Jacksonian Democracy
12. Body of electors who represent the peoples vote in choosing in choosing the president are called what?	Electoral College
13. What did political parties hold for party members, not just leaders, to select candidates?	Nominating Conventions
14. The New Mexican Government hired agents to to bring settlers to Texas during the 1800s. What were they called?	Empresarios
15. Obvious fate to settle land all the way to the pacific ocean in order to spread democracy is known as what?	Manifest Destiny
16. U.S. Paid Mexico $10 million to receive parts of Arizona and New Mexico. What was the name of this Purchase?	Gadsden Purchase
17. What is the practice of giving jobs to political backers called?	Spoils System
18. What are the disagreements between different regions known as?	Sectionalism

 

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