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 is the position of Joseph Stalin? | Premier of the Soviet Union | 2. Who was the marshal of the Soviet Union and German Soviet Zone? | Vasily Sokolovsky | 3. Who is Harry Truman | President of the U.S | 4. Who was suspicious of Allied Powers and wanted to use the geopolitical position of Berlin to force their hands? | Joseph Stalin | 5. Who had a spotless military record before the Berlin Crisis? | Sokolovsky | 6. Harry Truman became the U.S president after who's death? | Roosevelt | 7. Who became commander in chief of U.S forces in Europe and military governor of the U.S Zone in Germany in 1947? | Lucius Clay | 8. Who was Stalin betrayed by in WWII, before joining the Allies? | Hitler | 9. Who wished to establish the Soviet Union as a world player and gain recognition of a Soviet Sphere of influence in Eastern Europe? | Stalin | 10. Sokolovsky had to deal with what during the Berlin Crisis? | changing policies of Stalin | 11. Who was losing popularity right before the next election? | Truman | 12. Clay was determined not to withdraw from the Soviet Union and ____ the Soviets? | appease | 13. Stalin could gain Germany and its ________ | industrial power | 14. How would Sokolovsky gain more prestige? | Getting the U.S out of Berlin without using force | 15. Who needed to contain the Soviets? | Truman | 16. Clay could become the _______ | hero of Berlin | 17. Who could be forced to send Soviet troops into another conflict and force Western Allies to rearm? | Stalin | 18. Why did Sokolovsky need the respect of the Allies? | They could use force on him | 19. Who stood to lose everything? | Truman | 20. Clay could be remembered as the man who _______ | started WWIII | 21. _____ didn't want to go to war over economic disagreements, but wanted Allies out of Germany? | Stalin | 22. Truman made the decision to ______ | drop atomic bombs on Japan |
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