QR Challenge: Civil War and Reconstruction
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. List 5 words or phrases that were common to the northern states |
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2. List 5 words or phrases that were common to the southern states |
| 3. Who were the presidents during the Civil War? |
| 4. Who were the military commanders during the Civil War? |
| 5. Who were famous generals during the Civil War? |
| 6. What were the two main issues the Civil War was fought over? |
| 7. Who were two abolitionists during the Civil War and how did they differ? |
| 8. How did the Civil war begin? |
| 9. What was the turning point of the Civil War? |
| 10. Explain the Atlanta Campaign and the March to the Sea. |
| 11. Where and how did the Civil War end? |
| 12. How did life differ in the northern and southern states after the war? |
| 13. How did may former slaves and poor whites earn a living in the south after the Civil War? |
| 14. What was the Freedmen's Bureau? |
| 15. What are Jim Crow Laws? |
| 16. What does separate but equal mean? | |
Civil War and Reconstruction: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=List_5_words_or_phrases_that_were_common_to_the_northern_states
Question 1 (of 16)
Civil War and Reconstruction: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=List_5_words_or_phrases_that_were_common_to_the_southern_states
Question 2 (of 16)
Civil War and Reconstruction: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Who_were_the_presidents_during_the_Civil_War?
Question 3 (of 16)
Civil War and Reconstruction: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Who_were_the_military_commanders_during_the_Civil_War?
Question 4 (of 16)
Civil War and Reconstruction: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Who_were_famous_generals_during_the_Civil_War?
Question 5 (of 16)
Civil War and Reconstruction: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=What_were_the_two_main_issues_the_Civil_War_was_fought_over?
Question 6 (of 16)
Civil War and Reconstruction: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Who_were_two_abolitionists_during_the_Civil_War_and_how_did_they_differ?
Question 7 (of 16)
Civil War and Reconstruction: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=How_did_the_Civil_war_begin?
Question 8 (of 16)
Civil War and Reconstruction: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=What_was_the_turning_point_of_the_Civil_War?
Question 9 (of 16)
Civil War and Reconstruction: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Explain_the_Atlanta_Campaign_and_the_March_to_the_Sea.
Question 10 (of 16)
Civil War and Reconstruction: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Where_and_how_did_the_Civil_War_end?
Question 11 (of 16)
Civil War and Reconstruction: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=How_did_life_differ_in_the_northern_and_southern_states_after_the_war?
Question 12 (of 16)
Civil War and Reconstruction: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=How_did_may_former_slaves_and_poor_whites_earn_a_living_in_the_south_after_the_Civil_War?
Question 13 (of 16)
Civil War and Reconstruction: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=What_was_the_Freedmen's_Bureau?
Question 14 (of 16)
Civil War and Reconstruction: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=What_are_Jim_Crow_Laws?
Question 15 (of 16)
Civil War and Reconstruction: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=What_does_separate_but_equal_mean?
Question 16 (of 16)