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. In what year did the United States declare war on Germany? | 1917 | 2. What treaty ended the war? | The Treaty of Versailles | 3. What did the Germans nickname their submarines that they used to sink ships? | U-Boats | 4. What was the name of the telegram that was sent to Mexico from Germany asking them to join the war on the side of the central powers? | The Zimmerman Telegram | 5. What side did the United States join in World War I? | Allies | 6. Who were the "Big Four"? | Italy, England, France, the United States | 7. What territory did France lose after the Franco-Prussian War? | Alsace and Lorraine | 8. What is the name of the secret society that was trying to reunite all Serbs under one rule? | the Black Hand | 9. What country did Russia sign an alliance with? | France | 10. What are the four main causes of World War I? | Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism | 11. What was President Wilson's peace plan called? | the Fourteen Points | 12. What country was excluded from the League of Nations because it had a communist government? | Russia | 13. Who was the leader of the Bolshevik government that came into power in Russia? | Lenin | 14. Who did President Wilson make leader of the American Expeditionary Force? | General Pershing | 15. What country did Austria-Hungary take control of that almost resulted in war between Austria-Hungary and Serbia? | Croatia | 16. Who was assassinated in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914? | Archduke Franz Ferdinand | 17. The Germans came close to taking what capital city in the Battle of the Marne? | Paris | 18. What is artillery? | large field guns | 19. What are theaters of war? | key areas where fighting is contained | 20. What were the four theaters of World War I? | Western Front, Eastern Front, Italian Front, Gallipoli | 21. Who was Gavrilo Princip? | the assassin who killed Archduke Ferdinand | 22. What is imperialism? | establishing political or economic control over other countries | 23. List five weapons used during World War I for the first time. | machine guns, artillery, poison, zeppelins, torpedoes, planes, tanks | 24. What countries made up the Triple Alliance of 1882? | Germany, Italy, Austria-Hungary | 25. What was the Dreadnought? | A British battleship | 26. What ship was sunk by a German submarine and helped push America into the war? | the Lusitania |
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