QR Challenge: Unit 9 Economics of Africa Review

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. In Country Z it is easy to start a business and property rights are protected. How does this effect the role of entrepreneurs in Country Z?	Entrepreneurs can contribute a lot.
2. What is the relationship between literacy rate and standard of living?	Countries with high literacy rates usually have high standards of living.
3. Which productive resources are capital goods?	Order taker, cook, factory worker, cashier, store manager
4. Which productive resources are natural resources?	Wheat, Beef, iron, fossil fuels
5. Who answers the 3 basic economic questions in a mixed economy?	The people and the government
6. When a centralized government authority decides what is produced The economic system is a	Command Economy
7. What is a way that an African country can invest in its human capital?	Provide education and training
8. If a store in France bought clothing from Egypt to sell at their store in Paris, the clothing would be considered what?	Import
9. A country has a new industry that builds airplane engines for Delta. To protect this new industry from competition by lower priced foreign built airplane engines the government would use what type of economic trade barrier to raise the price of plane engines?	Tariff
10. How does specialization encourage trade between nations?	Countries can focus their resources to create a few products well and trade for products they don’t make.
11. What type of goods is a country with a highly educated workforce most likely to produce?	high tech products like iPads.
12. What country that we have studied would be most likely to suffer an oil explosion?	Nigeria
13. In Country X most economic decisions are made based on supply and demand. Businesses are motivated by profits, and competition determines prices. There is a small amount of government regulation, but consumers usually have a great deal of choices.	Choice d-most market
14. Because of the inhumane treatment of people in Nation X, many nations refused to trade with them in 2020. This is an example of what?	An embargo
15. What is Nigeria’s biggest problem economically?	Government corruption
16. Land ownership is encouraged in South Africa for what reason?	To reduce poverty
17. Many African nations have lots of natural resources but are still some of the poorest nations in the world. Why?	Instability in the government
18. The government of South Africa is spending money to build more roads, railroad tracks and other infrastructure throughout the country. Why?	The country is investing in capital goods.
19. Kenya is a part of the EAC (East African Community) these countries partner up and help each other economically. How?	No trade barriers are imposed, and the GDP can increase.
20. The majority of Kenya’s people work in what industry?	Agriculture
21. Why is Africa thought to be the richest continent?	There are so many valuable minerals and natural resources.
22. What exists that makes foreign trade easier?	Having an exchange rate system
23. How does a command economy answer the three economic questions?	Whatever the government decides
24. Nigeria has large deposits of oil exports a lot of this resource. Nigeria does not have a lot of other resources and industries. How does that impact the country’s GDP?	The country’s GDP is very oil dependent
25. South Africa’s Economy would be placed where on a continuum line?	Mixed Mort Market

 

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