QR Challenge: Carpentry Terms for Framing

Created using the ClassTools QR Treasure Hunt Generator

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.

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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!

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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.

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Questions / Answers (teacher reference)

Question	Answer
1. What is the board that lays flat on the sub floor. This board is fastened to the sub floor and the vertical studs are connected on top of this plate every 16\\\\\\\" OC? Explain its importance.	Sole Plate or Bottom Plate
2. What are vital components of wall framing to prevent the spread of fire? Why was it developed?	Fire stops
3. What are vertical wall members that provide nailing surfaces for finish materials such as drywall or paneling (on the inside) or sheathing and siding (on the outside)What are some of the other benefits of these vertical wall members?	Studs
4. Each platform is constructed one at a time. This is most often used for residential construction. Very similar to tilt-up construction. How would this benefit a company or a project?	Platform framing
5. What do you call walls that are constructed of posts spaced 4\\\\\\\', 6\\\\\\\', & 8\\\\\\\' apart?	Post and Beam Framing
6. What is done onsite and used most often to construct one or two story buildings with slab or foundation systems? What are the benefits?	Tilt-Up Construction
7. A short piece of stud used to transfer a load from a top plate to a header, or from a sill to a sole plate. Give me an example of when this would be used	Cripple Stud
8. A double 2x6 or 2x8 that is held up by trimmer boards. The header is used to transfer the weight of the wall around an opening down to the sole plate	Header
9. What is it called when you take the finished opening of the door or window and add 2 inches to the total measurement?	Rough Opening (RO)
10. What is the horizontal board below the opening of a window?	Sill
11. What is used to hold up a header, trimmers transfer the load of the header down to the sole plate.	Trimmer/Jack stud
12. What makes openings sturdier and increases the overall structural stability?	King Stud
13. What is a collection of laws listed in booklet form that covers all important aspects of the construction of a new building. Unless told otherwise 16\\\\\\\" on center will be figured as code?	Building code
14. What is a tool used to mark long, straight lines. The line (covered with chalk) is held tight and close to the surface and is snapped. A special reel rechalks the line each time it is wound into the case?	Chalk line/chalk box
15. What is a piece of wood placed between two joists or studs to keep them apart, and support them rigidly, steel scraps nailed to joists to make them rigid?	Bridging
16. What is it called when you use two pieces of stock/wood above a window or door frame?	Double Header

 

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