QR Challenge: USA 1919-1941 GGA

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.Alphabet agencies	The nickname given to the organisations and agencies set up as part of the New Deal
2. 2.Anti-flirt League	An organisation set up to protest against the "outrageous" behaviour of young women and men, but particularly against "flappers"
3. 3.Anti-Saloon League	A Christian organisation that campaigned for the ban of alcohol
4. 4.Bootleggers	People who carried alcohol into the USA from Canada or Mexico
5. 5.Brain Trust	A group of men and women with fresh and exciting new ideas who worked for President Roosevelt, especially during his first hundred days of presidency
6. 6.Congress	The American representative assemblies (the equivalent of Parliament in Britain). There are two houses, the Senate and the House of Representatives
7. 7. Dividend	Payment from the profits of a company to those who have shares in it
8. 8. Red Scare	A period in the 1920s where many Americans feared a communist (red) revolution or an anarchist takeover
9. 9. Prohibition	The law in the USA that made making and consuming alcohol illegal
10. 10. Laissez-faire	Literally means "leave-alone". A policy followed by the Republican party in the 1920s, which meant that the government did not interfere too much in the lives of ordinary Americans
11. 11. Lynching	Hanging someone without a fair trial
12. 12. Tariffs	A charge or tax put on goods coming in from another country
13. 13. Klonservations	Secret, coded language used by the Ku Klux Klan

 

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