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. What were three causes of World War I? | nationalism, imperialism and militarism | 2. 2. Which major countries fought with the Allied Powers? | Serbia, Russia, France, the United Kingdom, Italy, Belgium and the United States. | 3. 3. Which major countries fought with the Central Powers? | Austria-Hungary, Germany, Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire. | 4. 4. What were some of the new weapons used in WWI? | planes, poison gas, tanks, flamethrowers, machine guns | 5. 5. What issues did labor unions help resolve? | shorter workdays, higher wages, better working conditions | 6. 6. How did alliances help start WWI? | Alliances helped start the war because countries had made agreements to defend one another in an attack. So, when Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia other countries were drawn in on each side as a result of these allianes. | 7. 7. What event led to the start of WWI? | The assassination of the Archduke Ferdinand and his wife Sophie. This led Austria-Hungary to declare war on Serbia. | 8. 8. What were some of the ways the President Wilson asked the American people to support the war effort? | victory gardens, wheatless and meatless days, gasless Sundays, heatless Mondays and war bonds | 9. 9. What does the word nationalism mean? | Having excessive pride in ones’ own country. | 10. 10. What is it called when a country builds up their military and uses their military to solve problems? | militarism | 11. 11. What is it called when a country doesn’t choose sides in a conflict? | neutral | 12. 12. What does it mean when a country practices isolationism? | staying out of problems you are not directly involved in. | 13. 13. What happened to the Lusitania? | German u-boats sank it 1915 and more than 1,000 people including some US citizens died. | 14. 14. What was the Great Migration and what effect did it have on the war? | Many jobs were left vacant because of the war so many African-Americans moved North to take factory jobs. Thousands moved, so they called it The Great Migration. Without this change it would have been difficult for companies to keep producing goods during the war. | 15. 15. How was WWI different from other wars? | No face to face combat (soldiers fought in trenches), new weapons were used | 16. 16. What was the Selective Service Act? | This act allowed the US government to create a military draft. The draft made it legal to force men to serve in the military. | 17. 17. What year did the US enter the war and why? | The US entered the war in 1917 after Germany sank 5 US merchant ships and it was discovered that they were trying to bribe Mexico into joining the war by attacking the US. | 18. 18. What was document called that ended WWI? | It was called an armistice, which is an agreement to end fighting. | 19. 19. What was the name of the peace treaty that was signed after WWI? | The Treaty of Versailles | 20. 20. What was the impact of the peace treaty signed after the war? | The Treaty of Versailles put all of the blame for the war on Germany and held them responsible for all of the damage incurred during the war. Germany tried to repay some of the money, but it ruined their economy. They also made some payments in goods like coal, but it left them unable to run its own industries. |
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