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. 1.Germany viewed the Russian czar’s full mobilization of the army as an act of | war | 2. 2.Triple Alliance | Austria-Hungary,Germany, Italy | 3. 3.Triple Entente | Russia,France, England | 4. 4.Mobilization | process of assembling troops and supplies for war | 5. 5.Schlieffen Plan | military strategy for Germany to mobilize against France and Russia at the same time | 6. 6.How did industrialization affect the growth of the military in the nations of Europe? | It led to new methods of shipbuilding and new weapons. | 7. 7.Austria-Hungary was concerned about Serbia’s desire to be an independent state because | of Austria-Hungary's worries about its own Slavic minorities | 8. 8.The competition for lands abroad, especially in _______, led to conflict and heightened the existing rivalries among European states. | Africa | 9. 9.Town in which Archduke Ferdinand was assassinated | Sarajevo | 10. 10. Franz Ferdinand was shot by this man | Gavrilo Princip | 11. 11.The assassin was a member of this terrorist group | The Black Hand | 12. 12. What was so special about Belgium that made England enter the war | they were neutral. | 13. 13.The Western Front was bogged down in.... | trench warfare | 14. 14. As soon as the war started, Italy left this group... | Triple Alliance | 15. 15. Ideas that are spread to influence public opinion for or against a cause is called... | Propaganda | 16. 16. The country of __________ joined Germany and Austria-Hungary in September 1915 | Bulgaria | 17. 17. Airplanes were first used to do what in the war? | Spot enemy positions. | 18. 18. At the Battle of Marne, how were the soldiers transported to the front line? | by taxicabs | 19. 19. Softening up the Enemy meant.... | using artillery flatten enemy barbwire | 20. 20.German zeppelins were filled with what type of gas? | hydrogen | 21. 21.Conscription | military draft |
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