QR Challenge: Democratic or Republican belief?
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. The government should not pay for any schools. All schools should be private. |
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2. The government should guarantee that everyone will have a job and receive an annual income. |
| 3. People should pay for their own retirement. Social Security (government run-program) should be abolished. |
| 4. The government should not provide services that a person or business could provide. |
| 5. The government should own all of the forests to make sure timber is managed properly. |
| 6. The government should ban the use of pesticides on food crops. |
| 7. The government should pass a law raising the minimum wage, helping workers earn more money by making businesses pay more. |
| 8. The government should repeal (take away) a law requiring businesses to install pollution filters in factory smokestacks. |
| 9. The government should start a program that lets kids eat dinner free every night at school if their parents won't be home. |
| 10. The government should require that only healthy food options be given to kids at school. |
| 11. The government should leave it up to families to teach kids about food and should leave school lunches alone. |
| 12. This party is willing to raise taxes so that the government can provide needed services such as education and defense. |
| 13. This party supports the expansion of business without government assistance or interference. |
| 14. This party calls for the reduction of big government and cutting the budgets of those government-run programs. |
| 15. This party looks to expand the role of the Federal government in the lives of ordinary people. |
| 16. This party supports restrictions on large businesses and supports labor unions and workers' rights. |
| 17. This party is pro-life and opposes legalizing gay marriage. | |
Democratic or Republican belief?: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=The_government_should_not_pay_for_any_schools._All_schools_should_be_private.
Question 1 (of 17)
Democratic or Republican belief?: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=The_government_should_guarantee_that_everyone_will_have_a_job_and_receive_an_annual_income.
Question 2 (of 17)
Democratic or Republican belief?: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=People_should_pay_for_their_own_retirement._Social_Security_(government_run-program)_should_be_abolished.
Question 3 (of 17)
Democratic or Republican belief?: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=The_government_should_not_provide_services_that_a_person_or_business_could_provide.
Question 4 (of 17)
Democratic or Republican belief?: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=The_government_should_own_all_of_the_forests_to_make_sure_timber_is_managed_properly.
Question 5 (of 17)
Democratic or Republican belief?: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=The_government_should_ban_the_use_of_pesticides_on_food_crops.
Question 6 (of 17)
Democratic or Republican belief?: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=The_government_should_pass_a_law_raising_the_minimum_wage,_helping_workers_earn_more_money_by_making_businesses_pay_more.
Question 7 (of 17)
Democratic or Republican belief?: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=The_government_should_repeal_(take_away)_a_law_requiring_businesses_to_install_pollution_filters_in_factory_smokestacks.
Question 8 (of 17)
Democratic or Republican belief?: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=The_government_should_start_a_program_that_lets_kids_eat_dinner_free_every_night_at_school_if_their_parents_won't_be_home.
Question 9 (of 17)
Democratic or Republican belief?: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=The_government_should_require_that_only_healthy_food_options_be_given_to_kids_at_school.
Question 10 (of 17)
Democratic or Republican belief?: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=The_government_should_leave_it_up_to_families_to_teach_kids_about_food_and_should_leave_school_lunches_alone.
Question 11 (of 17)
Democratic or Republican belief?: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=This_party_is_willing_to_raise_taxes_so_that_the_government_can_provide_needed_services_such_as_education_and_defense.
Question 12 (of 17)
Democratic or Republican belief?: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=This_party_supports_the_expansion_of_business_without_government_assistance_or_interference.
Question 13 (of 17)
Democratic or Republican belief?: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=This_party_calls_for_the_reduction_of_big_government_and_cutting_the_budgets_of_those_government-run_programs.
Question 14 (of 17)
Democratic or Republican belief?: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=This_party_looks_to_expand_the_role_of_the_Federal_government_in_the_lives_of_ordinary_people.
Question 15 (of 17)
Democratic or Republican belief?: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=This_party_supports_restrictions_on_large_businesses_and_supports_labor_unions_and_workers'_rights.
Question 16 (of 17)
Democratic or Republican belief?: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=This_party_is_pro-life_and_opposes_legalizing_gay_marriage.
Question 17 (of 17)