QR Challenge: British History (from the Peasants' Revolt to Elizabeth's death)

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. What happened in 1453?	The Hundred Years War ended.
2. Who was the king in Britain when the Hundred Years War ended?	Henry VI
3. What Plantagenet families opposed in the War of the Roses?	The Lancastrians and the Yorks.
4. Why is the war called "of the Roses"?	Because the symbols of the two opposing families were two Roses, red for the Lancasters, white for the Yorks.
5. Who won at the end of the War of the Roses?	The Lancastrian Henry Tudor, who married the Yorkist Elizabeth, becoming Henry VII Tudor.
6. Why did Henry VIII want to divorce the Spanish princess, Cathrine of Aragon?	To have a male heir.
7. Did the Pope accept to dissolve Henry VIII's marriage?	No, he didn't.
8. Why did the Pope refuse to dissolve the marriage?	Because Cathrine was Spanish and Spain was an ally.
9. How did Henry VIII react?	He signed the ACt of Supremacy (1534) and declared himself the Head of the Church of England.
10. What relationship is there between Henry Viii and Elizabeth I?	Father and daughter.

 

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