QR Challenge: Age of Revolutions

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. How many colonies did britain have in America in 1776	13
2. What is Constitutional Monarchy	King shared power with parliament
3. What is the divine right of Kings	Kings picked by God to rule
4. What were the Navigation Acts	America only allowed sell tobacco to Britain and buy sugar from west indies
5. What was the Enlightenment	Questioning of traditional ideals
6. What act made Americans pay cost of keeping British soldiers	Quartering act
7. What act put a tax on all legal documents	Stamp Act
8. Explain "No taxation without representation"	no tax paid until they have real say in parliament
9. What was the event called when British soldiers fired on americans	Boston Massacre
10. What was Boston Tea Party	Sons of liberty dumped tea into boston harbour
11. Where were the first shots fired in American revolution	Lexington and concord
12. Who became leader of Continental army at 2nd Continental Congress	Washington
13. Why did America win revolution	Guerilla tactics, French help.
14. who were the "lobsterbacks"	british army
15. Who invented Seed drill	Jethro Tull
16. What did Cyrus Mccormick invent	Mechanical reaper.
17. What was Enclosure	fencing off of fields
18. Explain Selective breeding	choosing best animals to breed for better wool,milk,meat.
19. Who invented Flying shuttle	John Kay
20. Who invented the Spinning Jenny	James Hargreaves
21. What did Richard Arkwright invent	Water frame
22. What did Samuel Crompton invent	Mule
23. Who invented the Davy lamp	Humphrey Davy
24. Who invented puddling and rolling	Henry Cort
25. What did James Watt invent	Rotary steam engine.
26. What are Turnpike trusts	organisations set up to improve roads
27. What two problems faced people in industrial towns	Overcrowding and disease
28. Name two jobs in textile factories	Piercers and scavengers
29. Name three jobs in mines	Hewers, Hurriers, trappers
30. What did the Luddites do	Break up machines
31. What are cottiers	Labourers
32. Explain black '47	worst year of famine 1847

 

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