QR Challenge: Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment
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. I was forced by the Catholic Church to deny my findings of the universe6 | Galileo6
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2. I believed people should revolt if the government did not protect people's rights7 | John Locke7
| 3. I studied at the College of Juilly, France8 | Baron de Montesquieu8
| 4. I believed people should be judged based on individual merit and moral virtue, not on gender9 | Mary Wollstonecraft9
| 5. I believed people must submit to the absolute power of the state10 | Thomas Hobbes10
| 6. I was sent to prison because I made a political cartoon of one of the French government leaders11 | Voltaire11
| 7. I felt the government should be broken into different branches12 | Baron de Montesquieu12
| 8. I am the theory which supports the Earth as the center of the universe13 | geocentric theory13
| 9. My father fought in the English Civil war on the Parliament side14 | John Locke14
| 10. I felt that education would reduce the crime rate15 | Cesare Beccaria15
| 11. I am the idea that the world should be studied through observation and questions16 | Scientific Revolution16
| 12. I felt that education needed to be changed and children should be allowed to show their emotions to become freethinking individuals17 | Jean-Jacques Rousseau17
| 13. I am the theory that the sun is the center of the universe18 | heliocentric theory18
| 14. I studied mathematics and physics and discovered the law of gravity19 | Isaac Newton19
| 15. I believed religion was too powerful and defended individuals who suffered because of their beliefs20 | Voltaire20 |
Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=I_was_forced_by_the_Catholic_Church_to_deny_my_findings_of_the_universe6
Question 1 (of 15)
Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=I_believed_people_should_revolt_if_the_government_did_not_protect_people's_rights7
Question 2 (of 15)
Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=I_studied_at_the_College_of_Juilly,_France8
Question 3 (of 15)
Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=I_believed_people_should_be_judged_based_on_individual_merit_and_moral_virtue,_not_on_gender9
Question 4 (of 15)
Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=I_believed_people_must_submit_to_the_absolute_power_of_the_state10
Question 5 (of 15)
Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=I_was_sent_to_prison_because_I_made_a_political_cartoon_of_one_of_the_French_government_leaders11
Question 6 (of 15)
Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=I_felt_the_government_should_be_broken_into_different_branches12
Question 7 (of 15)
Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=I_am_the_theory_which_supports_the_Earth_as_the_center_of_the_universe13
Question 8 (of 15)
Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=My_father_fought_in_the_English_Civil_war_on_the_Parliament_side14
Question 9 (of 15)
Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=I_felt_that_education_would_reduce_the_crime_rate15
Question 10 (of 15)
Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=I_am_the_idea_that_the_world_should_be_studied_through_observation_and_questions16
Question 11 (of 15)
Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=I_felt_that_education_needed_to_be_changed_and_children_should_be_allowed_to_show_their_emotions_to_become_freethinking_individuals17
Question 12 (of 15)
Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=I_am_the_theory_that_the_sun_is_the_center_of_the_universe18
Question 13 (of 15)
Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=I_studied_mathematics_and_physics_and_discovered_the_law_of_gravity19
Question 14 (of 15)
Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=I_believed_religion_was_too_powerful_and_defended_individuals_who_suffered_because_of_their_beliefs20
Question 15 (of 15)