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. Theocracy | government ruled by a religious group | 2. Sultan | ruler of the Ottoman Empire | 3. Nationalism | love for ones country- feeling your country is better than others | 4. Zionism | movement to unite displaced Jews and settles them in Palestine. | 5. Anti-Semitism | hatred of the Jews | 6. Embargo | refusal to trade or to stop trade in a country | 7. What happened to the Ottoman Empire at the end of WWI | It was divided among different countries | 8. Who took over the land that was one the Ottoman Empire | Great Britain and France | 9. Explain the conflict caused when new borders were established in what was once the Ottoman Empire | They countries did not take in to consideration that they were separating ethnic and religious groups as well as mixing groups who did not get along. | 10. Most of the Jewish ____ are located in Palestine | Sacred places | 11. Where did most of the Jewish people want to go once the Holocaust was over | Palestine | 12. At the end of WWII, people around the world asked who to help the Jewish people | United Nations | 13. What did the UN decided to do for the Jewish people | Create a nation for them to live in – They divided Palestine into Jewish and Arab States | 14. When was Israel created | May 14, 1948 | 15. Since Israel was created what two groups have not been able to live peacefully | Jewish and Arab | 16. What is the main concern that the USA has with the Middle East countries | Oil | 17. Who was the dictator in Iraq in the 1990s | Saddam Hussein | 18. What did the creation of the country Kuwait do in the Middle East | Took away Iraq’s boarder on the Persian Gulf this caused them to lose access to oil | 19. When Kuwait was invaded by Iraq, Kuwait knew they had to rely on what | Allies | 20. Who did Kuwait call on to help and why was that country willing to help | United States because of the US gets a lot oil from Kuwait | 21. This war became known as ____ | Desert Storm | 22. What happened when Iraq withdrew from Kuwait | Saddam Hussein ordered his troops to set fire to oil fields | 23. During this time the United Nations set a ____ against Iraq, which stated what | Embargo – they could not export any goods nor could they import any goods | 24. It is believed that only ______ % of their weapons were actually destroyed by the time the UN stopped searching in Iraq | 85% | 25. After Desert Storm the US felt that Hussein was hiding ____ and helping ____. | Weapons of Mass Destruction / members of al-Qaeda | 26. In 2003, the US and other nations launched a military invasion of Iraq called ___ | Operation Iraqi Freedom | 27. After winning this invasion the United States helped set up ____ in Iraq | new government | 28. In December 2003, _______ was found hiding in a hole- he was captured, tried, and sentenced to death | Saddam Hussein | 29. In 2005, Iraq citizens took part in a free election to establish ______ | democratic government | 30. To this day ____________ are still causing conflict in Iraq | Sunni and Shia Muslims | 31. 2What was the goal of as-Qaeda | to put an end to western influences | 32. September 11, 2001 al-Qaeda attacked who | United States | 33. The al-Qaeda terrorist hijacked ____ planes | Four | 34. They crashed these planes in to what places | 2 Twin Tours, Pentagon, Field in Pennsylvania (intended to hit White House) | 35. Who did the US believe was hiding Osama Bin Laden and where | Taliban in the mountains of Afghanistan | 36. October 2001, US troops entered Afghanistan for what two reasons | Disable the Taliban and find bin Laden | 37. What did the US do to help the people of Afghanistan | Form a new democratic government | 38. How long did Bin Laden hide for | 10 years | 39. In 2011, Bin Laden was found where | Living in a compound in Pakistan |
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