QR Challenge: Recent Trends in Marriage & Family - Sociology
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. Why do sociologists believe most young people today are delaying marriage? | Finish their education & launch their careers
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2. Why do many young people delay having children? | To allow for time to complete education & to establish careers
| 3. What is the term for being caught between the needs of your children and the needs of your parents? | sandwich generation
| 4. What do sociologists call the conscious choice to remain childless? | Voluntary childlessness
| 5. Studies have found that married couples who choose to remain childless often have _________ levels of education and income. | high
| 6. Why do married women work? | Economic necessity
| 7. What law did Congress pass in 1993 to help parents care for their newborn children without having to quit work? | Family & Medical Leave Act
| 8. True or False: Participation of married women in the labor force has negative consequences for children. | False
| 9. In the U.S. most one-parent families are the result of ____________ or of births to unwed mothers. | divorce
| 10. What are the 3 problems common to the single-parent experience? | responsibility overload, task overload, and emotional overload
| 11. The major source of stress for most single parents is _____________________. | Lack of money
| 12. One parent families account for about _______% of families in the U.S. | 25%
| 13. The _____________ of the people who get divorced eventually remarry. | Majority
| 14. Studies have shown that it takes approximately ______ years for children to accept a stepparent in the same way that they accept a biological mother or father. | 4 years
| 15. What is one consequence of the high rates of divorce and remarriage? | large numbers of stepfamilies |
Recent Trends in Marriage & Family - Sociology: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Why_do_sociologists_believe_most_young_people_today_are_delaying_marriage?
Question 1 (of 15)
Recent Trends in Marriage & Family - Sociology: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Why_do_many_young_people_delay_having_children?
Question 2 (of 15)
Recent Trends in Marriage & Family - Sociology: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=What_is_the_term_for_being_caught_between_the_needs_of_your_children_and_the_needs_of_your_parents?
Question 3 (of 15)
Recent Trends in Marriage & Family - Sociology: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=What_do_sociologists_call_the_conscious_choice_to_remain_childless?
Question 4 (of 15)
Recent Trends in Marriage & Family - Sociology: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Studies_have_found_that_married_couples_who_choose_to_remain_childless_often_have___________levels_of_education_and_income.
Question 5 (of 15)
Recent Trends in Marriage & Family - Sociology: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Why_do_married_women_work?
Question 6 (of 15)
Recent Trends in Marriage & Family - Sociology: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=What_law_did_Congress_pass_in_1993_to_help_parents_care_for_their_newborn_children_without_having_to_quit_work?
Question 7 (of 15)
Recent Trends in Marriage & Family - Sociology: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=True_or_False:_Participation_of_married_women_in_the_labor_force_has_negative_consequences_for_children.
Question 8 (of 15)
Recent Trends in Marriage & Family - Sociology: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=In_the_U.S._most_one-parent_families_are_the_result_of______________or_of_births_to_unwed_mothers.
Question 9 (of 15)
Recent Trends in Marriage & Family - Sociology: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=What_are_the_3_problems_common_to_the_single-parent_experience?
Question 10 (of 15)
Recent Trends in Marriage & Family - Sociology: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=The_major_source_of_stress_for_most_single_parents_is______________________.
Question 11 (of 15)
Recent Trends in Marriage & Family - Sociology: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=One_parent_families_account_for_about________%_of_families_in_the_U.S.
Question 12 (of 15)
Recent Trends in Marriage & Family - Sociology: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=The_______________of_the_people_who_get_divorced_eventually_remarry.
Question 13 (of 15)
Recent Trends in Marriage & Family - Sociology: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Studies_have_shown_that_it_takes_approximately________years_for_children_to_accept_a_stepparent_in_the_same_way_that_they_accept_a_biological_mother_or_father.
Question 14 (of 15)
Recent Trends in Marriage & Family - Sociology: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=What_is_one_consequence_of_the_high_rates_of_divorce_and_remarriage?
Question 15 (of 15)
