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. What were we trying to stop the spread of during the Cold War? | Communism | 2. Which war is considered the first military defeat for the USA? | Vietnam War | 3. Who became the leader of the Soviet Union after Joseph Stalin died? | Nikita Khrushchev | 4. What is the name of the first space satellite that was launched into space? | Sputnik | 5. The ________ was the attempt to build up more and stronger weapons. | Arms Race | 6. The name of the alliance of countries trying to stop the spread of Communism | NATO | 7. Fidel Castro was the leader of which country during the Cold War? | Cuba | 8. Winston Churchill coined the term ____________. | Iron Curtain | 9. Describe the idea of the Red Scare. | The fear that Communism would take over the world. | 10. The space race was the race to be the first country to get to _____________. | Outer space | 11. The leader of North Vietnam during the Cold War was ____________. | Ho Chi Minh | 12. The period of time when Cuba had nuclear weapons supplied by the USSR was the____ | Cuban Missile Crisis | 13. The _______ was the agreement the USA made to assist countries in fighting Communism | Truman Doctrine | 14. The USA did not invade China during the Korean War in fear that _______ would occur. | World War 3 | 15. Which city in Germany contained a wall that separated citizens into a communist or Democratic side? | Berlin | 16. Who fired their weapons first during the Arms Race? | Noone did! |
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