QR Challenge: Civil War Scavenger Hung
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. What year did the Civil War begin? | 1861
|
2. Who was President during the Civil War? | Abraham Lincoln
| 3. He was commander of the Confederacy. | Robert E. Lee
| 4. He was the Union General in the Civil War. | Ulysses S. Grant
| 5. He was President of the Confederacy. | Jefferson Davis
| 6. This famous abolitionist helped many slaves escape to freedom. | Harriet Tubman
| 7. This is a system in which landowners let poor farmers use small areas of their land, and in return, the farmers gave the landowners a share of the crop. | sharecropping
| 8. These laws segregated African Americans from other Americans. | Jim Crow Laws
| 9. This was an organization that provided food, clothing, medical care, and legal advice to poor blacks and whites. | Freedmen's Bureau
| 10. This document officially ended slavery. | Emancipation Proclamation
| 11. This amendment ended slavery. | Thirteenth Amendment
| 12. This amendment declared that the states could not limit the rights of citizens. | Fourteenth Amendment
| 13. This amendment gave all men the right to vote. | Fifteenth Amendment
| 14. What event began the Civil War? | Battle of Fort Sumter
| 15. Fort Sumter is located in which state? | South Carolina
| 16. Gettysburg is located in which state? | Pennsylvania
| 17. This Union general marched his troops through Atlanta. | William T Sherman
| 18. This famous speech begins "Four score and seven years ago". | Gettysburg Address
| 19. What year did the Civil War end? | 1865
| 20. Who raided Harper's Ferry? | John Brown |
Civil War Scavenger Hung: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=What_year_did_the_Civil_War_begin?
Question 1 (of 20)
Civil War Scavenger Hung: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Who_was_President_during_the_Civil_War?
Question 2 (of 20)
Civil War Scavenger Hung: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=He_was_commander_of_the_Confederacy.
Question 3 (of 20)
Civil War Scavenger Hung: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=He_was_the_Union_General_in_the_Civil_War.
Question 4 (of 20)
Civil War Scavenger Hung: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=He_was_President_of_the_Confederacy.
Question 5 (of 20)
Civil War Scavenger Hung: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=This_famous_abolitionist_helped_many_slaves_escape_to_freedom.
Question 6 (of 20)
Civil War Scavenger Hung: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=This_is_a_system_in_which_landowners_let_poor_farmers_use_small_areas_of_their_land,_and_in_return,_the_farmers_gave_the_landowners_a_share_of_the_crop.
Question 7 (of 20)
Civil War Scavenger Hung: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=These_laws_segregated_African_Americans_from_other_Americans.
Question 8 (of 20)
Civil War Scavenger Hung: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=This_was_an_organization_that_provided_food,_clothing,_medical_care,_and_legal_advice_to_poor_blacks_and_whites.
Question 9 (of 20)
Civil War Scavenger Hung: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=This_document_officially_ended_slavery.
Question 10 (of 20)
Civil War Scavenger Hung: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=This_amendment_ended_slavery.
Question 11 (of 20)
Civil War Scavenger Hung: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=This_amendment_declared_that_the_states_could_not_limit_the_rights_of_citizens.
Question 12 (of 20)
Civil War Scavenger Hung: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=This_amendment_gave_all_men_the_right_to_vote.
Question 13 (of 20)
Civil War Scavenger Hung: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=What_event_began_the_Civil_War?
Question 14 (of 20)
Civil War Scavenger Hung: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Fort_Sumter_is_located_in_which_state?
Question 15 (of 20)
Civil War Scavenger Hung: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Gettysburg_is_located_in_which_state?
Question 16 (of 20)
Civil War Scavenger Hung: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=This_Union_general_marched_his_troops_through_Atlanta.
Question 17 (of 20)
Civil War Scavenger Hung: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=This_famous_speech_begins_"Four_score_and_seven_years_ago".
Question 18 (of 20)
Civil War Scavenger Hung: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=What_year_did_the_Civil_War_end?
Question 19 (of 20)
Civil War Scavenger Hung: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Who_raided_Harper's_Ferry?
Question 20 (of 20)
