QR Challenge: Westward Expansion Vocab
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. A term for pieces of a machine that are exactly alike and are easily replaced/switched | Interchangeable Parts
|
2. A ruler with absolute power | Dictator
| 3. A System of gates for lowering and raising water levels for boats to travel through a canal | lock
| 4. The nickname for miners that went to California | Forty-Niners
| 5. To cross a river | Ford
| 6. Taking over land or adding it onto your country | Annex
| 7. A person who is one of the first to inhabit or explore an area | Pioneer
| 8. A machine that removes the seed from cotton | Cotton Gin
| 9. The result or outcome of an action | Consequence
| 10. Giving up land or territory to someone else | Cession
| 11. The process of adopting a different culture in order to fit in with that group | Assimilate
| 12. When American sailors were kidnapped and forced to work in British warships | Impressment
| 13. Man made river to connect two or more natural bodies of water | Canal
| 14. Strong pride in your country | Nationalism
| 15. The belief that the U.S. was meant to stretch all the way across North America | Manifest Destiny |
Westward Expansion Vocab: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=A_term_for_pieces_of_a_machine_that_are_exactly_alike_and_are_easily_replaced/switched
Question 1 (of 15)
Westward Expansion Vocab: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=A_ruler_with_absolute_power
Question 2 (of 15)
Westward Expansion Vocab: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=A_System_of_gates_for_lowering_and_raising_water_levels_for_boats_to_travel_through_a_canal
Question 3 (of 15)
Westward Expansion Vocab: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=The_nickname_for_miners_that_went_to_California
Question 4 (of 15)
Westward Expansion Vocab: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=To_cross_a_river
Question 5 (of 15)
Westward Expansion Vocab: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Taking_over_land_or_adding_it_onto_your_country
Question 6 (of 15)
Westward Expansion Vocab: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=A_person_who_is_one_of_the_first_to_inhabit_or_explore_an_area
Question 7 (of 15)
Westward Expansion Vocab: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=A_machine_that_removes_the_seed_from_cotton
Question 8 (of 15)
Westward Expansion Vocab: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=The_result_or_outcome_of_an_action
Question 9 (of 15)
Westward Expansion Vocab: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Giving_up_land_or_territory_to_someone_else
Question 10 (of 15)
Westward Expansion Vocab: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=The_process_of_adopting_a_different_culture_in_order_to_fit_in_with_that_group
Question 11 (of 15)
Westward Expansion Vocab: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=When_American_sailors_were_kidnapped_and_forced_to_work_in_British_warships
Question 12 (of 15)
Westward Expansion Vocab: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Man_made_river_to_connect_two_or_more_natural_bodies_of_water
Question 13 (of 15)
Westward Expansion Vocab: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Strong_pride_in_your_country
Question 14 (of 15)
Westward Expansion Vocab: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=The_belief_that_the_U.S._was_meant_to_stretch_all_the_way_across_North_America
Question 15 (of 15)
