QR Challenge: Presidential Fun Facts

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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. President Taftt had to order a special bathtub that was so big 4 men could fit in it.
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3. The president has his own bowling alley and movie theater in the White House2
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5. Six Presidents had the name of James.3
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7. To be President you have to be 35 years.4
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9. To be President you must be born in the United States.5
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11. Jackson was involved in as many as 100 duels, most of which were fought to defend the honor of his wife, Rachel. He was shot in the chest in a duel in 1806 and took a bullet in the arm in a bar fight with Missouri Sen. Thomas Hart Benton in 1813.6
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13. John Tyler had 15 children, more than any other president7
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15. President Pierce was arrested for running over a woman with his horse!8
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17. James Buchanan regularly bought slaves in Washington, D.C. and quietly freed them in Pennsylvania.9
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19. Abraham Lincoln could throw down in the wrestling ring. As a young man, he was only defeated once out of approximately 300 matches.10
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22. Ulysses S. Grant smoked a ton of cigars — at least 20 a day. 11
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25. Not only was Garfield ambidextrous — he could write Latin with one hand and Greek with the other at the same time.12
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28. Chester A. Arthur last day in office, four women offered him their hands in marriage.13
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31. 6 Presidents were not married.14
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33. William McKinley almost always wore a red carnation on his lapel as a good luck charm. While greeting a line of people in 1901, he gave the flower to a little girl. Seconds later, he was shot by an assassin, and died eight days later. 15
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35. If you thought you had a tough boss, think again. Calvin Coolidge would occasionally press all the buttons in the Oval Office, sending bells ringing throughout the White House — and then hide to watch his staff run. 16
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37. Herbert Hoover's son had two pet alligators, which were occasionally permitted to run loose throughout the White House.17
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39. JFK was a huge James Bond fan18
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41. George W.Bush was captain of the cheerleading team. 19
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43. Obama's high school nickname on the basketball team was "Barry O'Bomber," which he earned due to his awesome jump shot20

Presidential Fun Facts: QR Challenge

https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=President_Taftt_had_to_order_a_special_bathtub_that_was_so_big_4_men_could_fit_in_it.

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