QR Challenge: Roles of Women in the American Revolutionary 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. Codename for women or women spies working with Culper Spy Ring | 355
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2. Most common roles for women were(3) | cooks, maids, laundresses, water bearers, seamstresses, nurses, spies
| 3. Famous woman soldier who fought under the alias Robert Shurtliff | Deborah Sampson
| 4. Mothers of George Washington she was strong willed | Mary Ball Washington
| 5. She set up sewing circles of officers wives | Martha Curtis Washington
| 6. She gave up her Loyalist family, married at 14, she shared her and her husbands food with soldiers | Lucky Flucker Knox
| 7. She wrote political plays, advised generals, she pushed for schools and education for women | Mercy Otis Warren
| 8. "Heroine of Battle of Cowpens" | Catherine Moore Barry
| 9. Female version of Paul Revere | Sybil Ludington
| 10. She established "Ladies of Philadelphia" | Esther de Berdt Read
| 11. She continued firing a coannon after her husband was killed. she is buried at the U.S. Military Academy | Margaret Cochran Corbin
| 12. She protected soldiers passing through a she was a Quaker | Hannah Blair
| 13. She supplied water to the troops | Molly Pitcher
| 14. This job ha d a day of .24 a day. There were 10 of these per 100 wounded or sick | nurses
| 15. Ladies wee called this b/c they followed the Army looking for food and protection usually wives, daughters and moms of soldiers | camp followers |
Roles of Women in the American Revolutionary War: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Codename_for_women_or_women_spies_working_with_Culper_Spy_Ring
Question 1 (of 15)
Roles of Women in the American Revolutionary War: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Most_common_roles_for_women_were(3)
Question 2 (of 15)
Roles of Women in the American Revolutionary War: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Famous_woman_soldier_who_fought_under_the_alias_Robert_Shurtliff
Question 3 (of 15)
Roles of Women in the American Revolutionary War: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Mothers_of_George_Washington_she_was_strong_willed
Question 4 (of 15)
Roles of Women in the American Revolutionary War: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=She_set_up_sewing_circles_of_officers_wives
Question 5 (of 15)
Roles of Women in the American Revolutionary War: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=She_gave_up_her_Loyalist_family,_married_at_14,_she_shared_her_and_her_husbands_food_with_soldiers
Question 6 (of 15)
Roles of Women in the American Revolutionary War: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=She_wrote_political_plays,_advised_generals,_she_pushed_for_schools_and_education_for_women
Question 7 (of 15)
Roles of Women in the American Revolutionary War: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text="Heroine_of_Battle_of_Cowpens"
Question 8 (of 15)
Roles of Women in the American Revolutionary War: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Female_version_of_Paul_Revere
Question 9 (of 15)
Roles of Women in the American Revolutionary War: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=She_established_"Ladies_of_Philadelphia"
Question 10 (of 15)
Roles of Women in the American Revolutionary War: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=She_continued_firing_a_coannon_after_her_husband_was_killed._she_is_buried_at_the_U.S._Military_Academy
Question 11 (of 15)
Roles of Women in the American Revolutionary War: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=She_protected_soldiers_passing_through_a_she_was_a_Quaker
Question 12 (of 15)
Roles of Women in the American Revolutionary War: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=She_supplied_water_to_the_troops
Question 13 (of 15)
Roles of Women in the American Revolutionary War: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=This_job_ha_d_a_day_of_.24_a_day._There_were_10_of_these_per_100_wounded_or_sick
Question 14 (of 15)
Roles of Women in the American Revolutionary War: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Ladies_wee_called_this_b/c_they_followed_the_Army_looking_for_food_and_protection_usually_wives,_daughters_and_moms_of_soldiers
Question 15 (of 15)
