QR Challenge: APUSH Robber Barons and Industrialization
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. Corruption in the RR that stole $23 million from stockholders | Credit Mobilier
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2. Worked on the Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railroads | Irish and Chinese
| 3. The Golden Spike location | Promontory Point, Utah
| 4. Pullman Palace Cars | Train cars that hall people
| 5. Created in 1883 to standardized railroad times | National Time Zones
| 6. over inflated stock | Stock Watering
| 7. A group of supposed competitors who work together | Pool
| 8. Supreme Court case on RR and Commerce | Wabash
| 9. ICC | Interstate Commerce Commission
| 10. Person associated with Vertical Integration | Andrew Carnegie
| 11. Person associated with Horizontal Integration | John D. Rockefeller
| 12. Person associated with Interlocking Directorates | J. P Morgan
| 13. The most talented and fittest of people should run a business | Social Darwinism
| 14. Some people are destined to become rich and help poor people | Gospel of Wealth
| 15. Acres of Diamonds | Poor People make them selves poor, rich people make themselves rich |
APUSH Robber Barons and Industrialization: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Corruption_in_the_RR_that_stole_$23_million_from_stockholders
Question 1 (of 15)
APUSH Robber Barons and Industrialization: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Worked_on_the_Central_Pacific_and_Union_Pacific_Railroads
Question 2 (of 15)
APUSH Robber Barons and Industrialization: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=The_Golden_Spike_location
Question 3 (of 15)
APUSH Robber Barons and Industrialization: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Pullman_Palace_Cars
Question 4 (of 15)
APUSH Robber Barons and Industrialization: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Created_in_1883_to_standardized_railroad_times
Question 5 (of 15)
APUSH Robber Barons and Industrialization: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=over_inflated_stock
Question 6 (of 15)
APUSH Robber Barons and Industrialization: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=A_group_of_supposed_competitors_who_work_together
Question 7 (of 15)
APUSH Robber Barons and Industrialization: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Supreme_Court_case_on_RR_and_Commerce
Question 8 (of 15)
APUSH Robber Barons and Industrialization: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=ICC
Question 9 (of 15)
APUSH Robber Barons and Industrialization: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Person_associated_with_Vertical_Integration
Question 10 (of 15)
APUSH Robber Barons and Industrialization: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Person_associated_with_Horizontal_Integration
Question 11 (of 15)
APUSH Robber Barons and Industrialization: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Person_associated_with_Interlocking_Directorates
Question 12 (of 15)
APUSH Robber Barons and Industrialization: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=The_most_talented_and_fittest_of_people_should_run_a_business
Question 13 (of 15)
APUSH Robber Barons and Industrialization: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Some_people_are_destined_to_become_rich_and_help_poor_people
Question 14 (of 15)
APUSH Robber Barons and Industrialization: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Acres_of_Diamonds
Question 15 (of 15)
