QR Challenge: Texas History Review
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.
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!
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.
Questions / Answers (teacher reference)
Question | Answer |
1. How would you characterize the Mountains and Basins region? ( physical geography, major industries and cities) |
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2. How would you characterize the Great Plains region? ( physical geography, major industries and cities) |
| 3. This region is the location of cities such as Ft. Worth, Arlington and Weatherford. It is a transition from the high plains of its western neighbor and the low,rolling coast of its eastern neighbor. |
| 4. Farming is a very important industry in this region |
| 5. How would you characterize the Coastal Plains region? ( physical geography, major industries and cities) |
| 6. How did the earliest people come to live in America? |
| 7. How did the climate of the Mountains and Basins region affect the Puebloan culture of the Native Americans such as the Jumano and Tigua people? |
| 8. Think back to the Native American group that you learned about. How did the land and affect the people and the way they live? |
| 9. How would you describe the Age of Contact? |
| 10. What people and events characterize this period of time? |
| 11. What was New Spain? What country is it today? |
| 12. Why is 1519 a significant date in Texas history and who made that date important? |
| 13. What significance does Cabaza de Vaca’s books have on explorers after him? |
| 14. What did Coronado write back to the Spanish king about the lands he explored? |
| 15. How would LaSalle’s fort in eastern Texas affect the Spanish? | |
Texas History Review: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=How_would_you_characterize_the_Mountains_and_Basins_region?_(_physical_geography,_major_industries_and_cities)
Question 1 (of 15)
Texas History Review: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=How_would_you_characterize_the_Great_Plains_region?_(_physical_geography,_major_industries_and_cities)
Question 2 (of 15)
Texas History Review: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=This_region_is_the_location_of_cities_such_as_Ft._Worth,_Arlington_and_Weatherford._It_is_a_transition_from_the_high_plains_of_its_western_neighbor_and_the_low,rolling_coast_of_its_eastern_neighbor.
Question 3 (of 15)
Texas History Review: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Farming_is_a_very_important_industry_in_this_region
Question 4 (of 15)
Texas History Review: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=How_would_you_characterize_the_Coastal_Plains_region?_(_physical_geography,_major_industries_and_cities)
Question 5 (of 15)
Texas History Review: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=How_did_the_earliest_people_come_to_live_in_America?
Question 6 (of 15)
Texas History Review: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=How_did_the_climate_of_the_Mountains_and_Basins_region_affect_the_Puebloan_culture_of_the_Native_Americans_such_as_the_Jumano_and_Tigua_people?
Question 7 (of 15)
Texas History Review: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Think_back_to_the_Native_American_group_that_you_learned_about._How_did_the_land_and_affect_the_people_and_the_way_they_live?
Question 8 (of 15)
Texas History Review: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=How_would_you_describe_the_Age_of_Contact?
Question 9 (of 15)
Texas History Review: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=What_people_and_events_characterize_this_period_of_time?
Question 10 (of 15)
Texas History Review: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=What_was_New_Spain?__What_country_is_it_today?
Question 11 (of 15)
Texas History Review: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Why_is_1519_a_significant_date_in_Texas_history_and_who_made_that_date_important?
Question 12 (of 15)
Texas History Review: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=What_significance_does_Cabaza_de_Vaca’s_books_have_on_explorers_after_him?
Question 13 (of 15)
Texas History Review: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=What_did_Coronado_write_back_to_the_Spanish_king_about_the_lands_he_explored?
Question 14 (of 15)
Texas History Review: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=How_would_LaSalle’s_fort_in_eastern_Texas_affect_the_Spanish?
Question 15 (of 15)