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.
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1. Who were the kamikaze? | B | 2. What was the Manhattan Project? | D | 3. What stopped the German advance during the invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941? | D | 4. In 1942, what priority did Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin set in the war? | C | 5. During World War II, "Rosie the Riveter" came to symbolize | B | 6. What U.S. action influenced the Japanese decision to attack the United States in 1941? | A | 7. The Truman Doctrine was rooted in the idea of | B | 8. What was one of Stalin`s major goals in Eastern Europe after World War II? | C | 9. The U.S. strategy of "island-hopping" in the Pacific | D | 10. Hitler decided to invade the Soviet Union because | B | 11. What was one reason why the Spanish Civil War was called a "dress rehearsal" for World War II? | A | 12. What did the Nazi-Soviet Pact accomplish for Germany? | C | 13. The Eastern European nations that were carved out of old European empires after World War I | C | 14. What measure did the Nazis take that was a rejection of the Versailles treaty? | B | 15. What was the cause of Stalin`s Great Purge? | C | 16. Under Mussolini`s rule in Italy, | C | 17. In the early 1930s, which of the following contributed to the spread of economic problems around the world? | A | 18. Which statement is correct about economy of the United States in the 1920s? | D | 19. After most of Ireland became self-governing in 1922, why did the Irish Republican Army (IRA) continue to fight the British? | C | 20. Sigmund Freud`s method of studying how the mind works and treating mental disorders is called | D | 21. In 1935, the Nazis passed the Nuremberg Laws which | B | 22. France occupied Germany`s coal-rich Ruhr Valley in 1923 | D | 23. On Stalin`s collectives, | C | 24. What was a key characteristic of fascism in the 1920s and 1930s? | B | 25. U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt proposed a massive package of Depression relief called the | A | 26. How did the League of Nations respond when Japan invaded Manchuria in 1931? | D | 27. In 1928, Scottish scientist Alexander Fleming discovered | B | 28. What was a result of prohibition, which was made law in the United States in 1919? | B | 29. Location of first U.S. atomic bombing | C | 30. Opposition to all war | D | 31. Site of major Russian victory over German troops | F | 32. Hitler`s plan for the union of Austria and Germany | H | 33. "lightning War" | G | 34. Intended to prevent U.S. involvement in a European war | A | 35. Site of Allied war strategy meeting | J | 36. Giving in to an aggressor`s demands to maintain peace | B | 37. German city in which Allies held war crimes trials | I | 38. Allowed the U.S. president to aid to American Allies | E | 39. A class of wealthy farmers whom Stalin destroyed | B | 40. Encouraged world-wide communist revolution | A | 41. "Night of Broken Glass" | F | 42. Militant supporters of Benito Mussolini | G | 43. Nazi secret police | D | 44. A system of brutal Russian labor camps | J | 45. An artistic movement that attempts to portray the workings of the unconscious | I | 46. A one-party dictatorship that tries to regulate all aspects of its citizens` lives | E | 47. Liberated young women of the Jazz Age | H | 48. Renounced war was an instrument of policy | C |
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