QR Challenge: Cold War Hunt

Created using the ClassTools QR Treasure Hunt Generator

Teacher Notes

A. Prior to the lesson:

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

• Download a QR reader (e.g. I-Nigma | NeoReader | Kaywa) onto their mobile devices
• Bring these devices into the lesson.

3. Print out the QR codes.

4. Cut them out and place them around your class / school.

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B. The lesson:

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!

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C. TIPS / OTHER IDEAS

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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Questions / Answers (teacher reference)

Question	Answer
1. 1.When was the Yalta Conference?
2. 2.Which leaders were at the Yalta Conference?
3. 3.What is the acronym for knowing what happened at Yalta?
4. 4.Give 3 things that had happened come Postdam
5. 5.What does the term Iron Curtain mean?
6. 6.When did America drop the Atomic Bomb?
7. 7.What policy did America follow after 1947 and why?
8. 8.What was Marshall Aid?
9. 9.What does Salami Tactics mean?
10. 10.Why did Stalin Blockade Berlin?
11. 11.What was the significance of the Berlin Blockade?
12. 12.What happened at Czechslovakia and why is it important?
13. 13.What does NATO stand for, and why was it set up?
14. 14.Why did the Korean War happen and what were its consequences?
15. 15.Mr Briggs has your final question

 

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