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. French colonialism in Vietnam lasted more than six decades. By the late 1880s, the French controlled Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, which were collectively referred to as French Indochina. | 2. Indochina became one of France’s most lucrative colonial possessions. | 3. French imperialists claimed it was their responsibility to colonise undeveloped regions in Africa and Asia, to introduce modern political ideas, social reforms, industrial methods and new technologies. | 4. French imperialism was driven by a demand for resources, raw materials and cheap labour. | 5. The political management of Indochina was left to a series of governors. Paris sent more than 20 governors to Indochina between 1900 and 1945. | 6. French colonial governors, officials and bureaucrats had significant authority. This encouraged self-interest and corruption. | 7. To minimise local resistance, the French employed a ‘divide and rule’ strategy, dividing Vietnam into 3 separate provinces. Each of these were administered separately. | 8. Profit was the driving force behind French colonisation. Over time, colonial officials and French companies transformed Vietnam’s thriving farming economy into a capitalist system based on land ownership, increased production, exports and low wages. | 9. Millions of Vietnamese no longer worked to provide for themselves; they now worked for the benefit of French colonisers. | 10. The French also constructed factories and built mines to tap into Vietnam’s deposits of coal, tin and zinc. Most of this material was sold abroad as exports and the profits lined the pockets of French officials. | 11. The workers on plantations in French Indochina worked long hours in debilitating conditions for wages that were pitifully small. Some were paid in rice rather than money. | 12. The working day could be as long as 15 hours, without breaks or adequate food and fresh water. | 13. Conditions were particularly poor on the plantations owned by French tyre manufacturer Michelin. In the 20 years between the two world wars, one Michelin-owned plantation recorded 17,000 deaths. | 14. Malnutrition, dysentery and malaria were rife on plantations, especially those producing rubber. It was not uncommon for plantations to have several workers die in a single day. | 15. The French also burdened the Vietnamese with an extensive taxation system. This included income tax on wages and a poll tax on all adults. | 16. A historian’s view: “The French ‘civilising mission’ was the transformation of subject peoples into loyal French men and women. Through education and examinations, it was theoretically possible for a Vietnamese to obtain French citizenship, with all its privileges. Yet in reality, the criteria for citizenship were manipulated to ensure that subject citizens never threatened French political power.” Melvin E. Page | 17. French colonialism did provide some benefits for Vietnamese society, most noticeable of which were improvements in education. | 18. The University of Hanoi was opened by colonists in 1902 and became an important national centre of learning. A small quota of Viet students were given scholarships to study in France. | 19. Colonialism also produced a physical transformation in Vietnamese cities. Traditional local temples, pagodas, monuments and buildings, some of which had stood for a millennium, were declared derelict and destroyed. Buildings of French architecture and style were erected in their place. | 20. The Vietnamese names of cities, towns and streets were changed to French names. Significant business, such as banking and mercantile trade, was conducted in French rather than local languages. |
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