QR Challenge: Captains of Industry vs. Robber Baron
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. Carnegie steel industry | Captain or Robber Baron
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2. Rockefeller founded Standard Oil | Captain or Robber Baron
| 3. Vanderbilt refused service to people traveling on competing railroad line | Captain or Robber Baron
| 4. Morgan created a financial monopoly | Captain or Robber Baron
| 5. Morgan bought out Andrew Carnegie | Captain or Robber Baron
| 6. Carnegie used Bessemer Steel Process | Captain or Robber Baron
| 7. Carnegie transformed cities | Captain or Robber Baron
| 8. Rockefeller bought ought 90% of oil companies | Captain or Robber Baron
| 9. Vanderbilt gained a large percentage of railroads | Captain or Robber Baron
| 10. Morgan paid workers low wages | Captain or Robber Baron
| 11. Carnegie donated 90% of his wealth to philanthropy | Captain or Robber Baron
| 12. Carnegie paid workers low wages | Captain or Robber Baron
| 13. Rockefeller donated over $500,000 | Captain or Robber Baron
| 14. Vanderbilt lowered rates to gain competitors business | Captain or Robber Baron
| 15. Morgan helped United States government out of a financial crisis | Captain or Robber Baron
| 16. Morgan philanthropist | Captain or Robber Baron
| 17. Vanderbilt paid workers low wages | Captain or Robber Baron
| 18. Rockefeller used horizontal integration creating a monopoly | Captain or Robber Baron
| 19. Morgan treated workers poorly | Captain or Robber Baron
| 20. Vanderbilt was a philanthropist | Captain or Robber Baron
| 21. Carnegie refused to negotiate with striking workers | Captain or Robber Baron
| 22. Vanderbilt workers often worked in deplorable conditions | Captain or Robber Baron
| 23. Rockefeller paid workers less than .10/hour | Captain or Robber Baron
| 24. Carnegie used vertical integration creating a monopoly | Captain or Robber Baron
| 25. Carnegie poor working conditions in the steel mills | Captain or Robber Baron
| 26. Rockefeller created jobs | Captain or Robber Baron |
Captains of Industry vs. Robber Baron: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Carnegie_steel_industry
Question 1 (of 26)
Captains of Industry vs. Robber Baron: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Rockefeller_founded_Standard_Oil
Question 2 (of 26)
Captains of Industry vs. Robber Baron: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Vanderbilt_refused_service_to_people_traveling_on_competing_railroad_line
Question 3 (of 26)
Captains of Industry vs. Robber Baron: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Morgan_created_a_financial_monopoly
Question 4 (of 26)
Captains of Industry vs. Robber Baron: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Morgan_bought_out_Andrew_Carnegie
Question 5 (of 26)
Captains of Industry vs. Robber Baron: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Carnegie_used_Bessemer_Steel_Process
Question 6 (of 26)
Captains of Industry vs. Robber Baron: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Carnegie_transformed_cities
Question 7 (of 26)
Captains of Industry vs. Robber Baron: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Rockefeller_bought_ought_90%_of_oil_companies
Question 8 (of 26)
Captains of Industry vs. Robber Baron: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Vanderbilt_gained_a_large_percentage_of_railroads
Question 9 (of 26)
Captains of Industry vs. Robber Baron: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Morgan_paid_workers_low_wages
Question 10 (of 26)
Captains of Industry vs. Robber Baron: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Carnegie_donated_90%_of_his_wealth_to_philanthropy
Question 11 (of 26)
Captains of Industry vs. Robber Baron: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Carnegie_paid_workers_low_wages
Question 12 (of 26)
Captains of Industry vs. Robber Baron: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Rockefeller_donated_over_$500,000
Question 13 (of 26)
Captains of Industry vs. Robber Baron: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Vanderbilt_lowered_rates_to_gain_competitors_business
Question 14 (of 26)
Captains of Industry vs. Robber Baron: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Morgan_helped_United_States_government_out_of_a_financial_crisis
Question 15 (of 26)
Captains of Industry vs. Robber Baron: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Morgan_philanthropist
Question 16 (of 26)
Captains of Industry vs. Robber Baron: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Vanderbilt_paid_workers_low_wages
Question 17 (of 26)
Captains of Industry vs. Robber Baron: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Rockefeller_used_horizontal_integration_creating_a_monopoly
Question 18 (of 26)
Captains of Industry vs. Robber Baron: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Morgan_treated_workers_poorly
Question 19 (of 26)
Captains of Industry vs. Robber Baron: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Vanderbilt_was_a_philanthropist
Question 20 (of 26)
Captains of Industry vs. Robber Baron: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Carnegie_refused_to_negotiate_with_striking_workers
Question 21 (of 26)
Captains of Industry vs. Robber Baron: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Vanderbilt_workers_often_worked_in_deplorable_conditions
Question 22 (of 26)
Captains of Industry vs. Robber Baron: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Rockefeller_paid_workers_less_than_.10/hour
Question 23 (of 26)
Captains of Industry vs. Robber Baron: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Carnegie_used_vertical_integration_creating_a_monopoly
Question 24 (of 26)
Captains of Industry vs. Robber Baron: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Carnegie_poor_working_conditions_in_the_steel_mills
Question 25 (of 26)
Captains of Industry vs. Robber Baron: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Rockefeller_created_jobs
Question 26 (of 26)