QR Challenge: During the Civil War
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. blockade | blockade
|
2. retreat | retreat
| 3. surrender | surrender
| 4. Anaconda Plan | Anaconda Plan
| 5. Frederick Douglass | Frederick Douglass
| 6. Emancipation Proclamation | Emancipation Proclamation
| 7. cavalry | cavalry
| 8. dedicate | dedicate
| 9. massacre | massacre
| 10. Reconstruction | Reconstruction
| 11. strategist | strategist
| 12. truce | truce
| 13. Gettysburg Address | Gettysburg Address
| 14. Clara Barton | Clara Barton
| 15. Nathan Forrest | Nathan Forrest
| 16. Abraham Lincoln | Abraham Lincoln
| 17. Ulysses S. Grant | Ulysses S. Grant
| 18. Robert E. Lee | Robert E. Lee |
During the Civil War: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=blockade
Question 1 (of 18)
During the Civil War: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=retreat
Question 2 (of 18)
During the Civil War: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=surrender
Question 3 (of 18)
During the Civil War: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Anaconda_Plan
Question 4 (of 18)
During the Civil War: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Frederick_Douglass
Question 5 (of 18)
During the Civil War: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Emancipation_Proclamation
Question 6 (of 18)
During the Civil War: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=cavalry
Question 7 (of 18)
During the Civil War: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=dedicate
Question 8 (of 18)
During the Civil War: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=massacre
Question 9 (of 18)
During the Civil War: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Reconstruction
Question 10 (of 18)
During the Civil War: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=strategist
Question 11 (of 18)
During the Civil War: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=truce
Question 12 (of 18)
During the Civil War: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Gettysburg_Address
Question 13 (of 18)
During the Civil War: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Clara_Barton
Question 14 (of 18)
During the Civil War: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Nathan_Forrest
Question 15 (of 18)
During the Civil War: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Abraham_Lincoln
Question 16 (of 18)
During the Civil War: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Ulysses_S._Grant
Question 17 (of 18)
During the Civil War: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Robert_E._Lee
Question 18 (of 18)
