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. The area of Czechoslovakia that Great Britain and France agreed to give to Hitler, appeasing him, with a promise he would stop expanding into other areas | Sudetenland | 2. The _______ Act of 1935 which meant to keep America out of the war by stating that the United States could not trade with any belligerent nation. | Neutrality | 3. The nation that surrendered to Germany in June of 1940, leaving Great Britain as the only opponent against Germany in Europe | France | 4. Franklin Delano Roosevelt's program to provide military supplies and American Destroyers to Great Britain without technically breaking the terms of the Neutrality Acts (clue includes a hyphen) | Lend-Lease | 5. Policy where Naval forces could fire on any German submarine that they saw (clue includes hyphens) | Shoot-on-Sight | 6. The U.S.S. ____ was attacked with two torpedos from a Germany submarine, resulting in an escalated policy of involvement from the United States naval forces | Greer | 7. The United States naval based that was attacked, the event that would bring the United States directly into the war | Pearl Harbor | 8. The ______ Incident occurred when Japan destroyed its own railroads, blamed China, and then used it as a false excuse to invade China, beginning its expansionist policies | Mukden | 9. An agreement made between Japan, Germany, and Italy to mutual cooperation against the threat of international communism (clue includes a hyphen) | Anti-Comintern Pact | 10. Event where Japanese aircraft attacked US vessels on a Chinese river, sinking several ships and killing 2 Americans in December of 1937 | Panay Incident | 11. The US decided to ______Strategic Materials, meaning they prohibited the sale to Japan materials important to the war effort | Embargo | 12. The US foreign policy in the 1920s and 1930s which meant to keep to themselves and not get involved in foreign affairs | Isolationism | 13. Franklin Delano Roosevelt said the United States needed to be the Great ___ of Democracy because the US possessed enough economic resources to produce massive amounts of war material that could help the Allies win the war | Arsenal | 14. A policy that, along with the Lend-Lease Act, was meant to avoid actions that led to World War I while at the same time providing aid to the Allies without involving the US in war directly (clue includes hyphens) | Cash-and-Carry | 15. The important resource that the United States stopped trading with Japan after they invaded Indochina, leading Japan to desperation and the decision to attack the United States at Pearl Harbor | Oil |
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