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
4. Cut them out and place them around your class / school.
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!
4. A detailed case study in how to set up a successful QR Scavenger Hunt using this tool can be found here.
Question | Answer |
| 1. Describe what ships had to rely on before the steam boat came along | The current of the water or strong winds to propel the ships. | 2. Identify how steamboats influenced Louisiana’s economy and transportation2 | Giant boats with steam propulsion meant they could go farther and faster with a bigger load and were major means for transporting corn, cotton, and other goods2. | 3. Identify the problem that Louisiana inventor Henry Shreve fixed, and describe how this was important3 | Henry Shreve invented the flat bottomed steamboat that could navigate through shallow and deep water and go further inland3. | 4. Explain how subsistence farming worked, and determine what revolutionized Louisiana’s agriculture and economy4 | Used to grow multi-crops for family and inventions such as the Cotton Gin and Sugar boilers and evaporators grew the economy4. | 5. Explain what made the Cotton Gin such an important invention for planters?5 | It allowed for easier separation of seeds and for the ability to produce more of a product to have more wealth5. | 6. What did Norbert Rillieux invent with sugar refining, and how did it change sugar processing?6 | He invented a vaccum and drying method using pipes to heat kettles and dry the sugarcane juice and make sugar granules which cut sugar processing in half6. | 7. What were the main benefits to a mono-crop plantation farming system, and what were the 3 major mono crops grown in Louisiana?7 | 10-20% high-yield return on profits, ability to produce more and faster, and increased wealth and power for planters7. | 8. How did the 1st Railroad in Louisiana, the Pontchartrain Rail-Road impact transporting of goods?8 | made it easier to offload goods from the Gulf of Mexico to the Mississippi River and to ship north8. | 9. What did the city of New Orleans invest in that was the first of its kind in the nation, and what was it called?9 | The 1st public transit system called the New Orleans and Carrolton Railroad9. | 10. Who did southern planters develop and interdependent relationship with and why?10 | It was with Textile factory owners and other southern states to ship materials like cotton that the planters would use to produce in factories making clothes to be resold in New Orleans or around the country10. | 11. Describe the purpose of a tariff and how it impacted sugar production for Louisiana?11 | a tax on imported goods like sugar from the Caribbean would lower the price of goods like sugar making people buy American made sugar11. What do you think played the largest role in transforming agriculture in Louisiana, and why?12 | 12. Before the cotton gin was invented, why might indigo have been a more stable cash crop to grow?13 | This is because cotton took months to grow and a large amount of time to harvest which all total took almost a year for the whole process; therefore the costs were too high13. | 13. Explain 2 reasons how the introduction of the steamboat impacted the cattle industry.14 | the steamboat made it easier to transport cattle from one location to another and made the industry more profitable because of easier transportation14. |
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