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. Who was Gandhi's right-hand man that later would become the first prime minister of India? | Nehru | 2. What nation is created when the Muslims want to be separate from the Hindus?2 | Pakistan | 3. Who brought democracy to China and formed the Nationalist party as the first President of China?3 | Sun Yat Sen | 4. Who become the leader of the Nationalist party after the death its leader in 1925?3 | Chiang Kai-Shek | 5. Who became the leader of the Communist party in China that rivaled the nationalist party?4 | Mao Zedong | 6. What was the group known as that lead the Cultural Revolution for the communist faction in China?5 | Red Guard | 7. What was the name of the plan that Mao Zedong hoped would advance the Chinese economy?6 | Great Leap Forward | 8. What was Ghana known as before they became the nation of Ghana?7 | Gold Coast | 9. What was the name of the major figure of the movement for independence in Ghana?8 | Kwame Nkrumah | 10. What seperates Israel from Egypt?9 | Gaza Strip | 11. Who was the major threat to the Jewish state?10 | Arabs | 12. Who became leader of the Soviet Union after the death of Stalin?11 | Khrushchev | 13. Who gained control of the Soviet Union in 1985 and began to take steps towards ending the Cold War?12 | Gorbachev | 14. What is formed by the United States, Great Britain and Canada in response to Soviet aggression?13 | NATO | 15. What is formed by the Soviet Union and eastern European countries in response to NATO?14 | Warsaw Pact | 16. What is the term for being on a constant edge of being brought into war?15 | brinkmanship | 17. What is an easing of tensions?16 | detente | 18. What was the name of the first satellite sent by the Russians into space?17 | Sputnik | 19. What was built that would separate Germany?18 | Berlin Wall | 20. What did Churchill refer to this as which would divide Europe?19 | Iron Curtain | 21. What side of the Berlin Wall was communist?20 | East | 22. What side of the Berlin Wall practiced democracy? 21 | West | 23. What was the name of the plan to rebuild Europe by the USA?22 | Marshall Plan | 24. What was the name of the plan to rebuild Japan?23 | MacArthur Plan | 25. What was the idea of stopping the spread of communism?24 | containment | 26. What was the name of the proclamation by Truman that he would aid any nation trying to resist communism?25 | Truman Doctrine |
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