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. Question 1. Name any one of the four main causes that led to the start of World War One | Answer 1. Imperialism, Nationalism, Militarism, Alliances | 2. Question 2.What was the name given to the type of warfare fought on the land during World War One? | Answer2. Trench Warfare | 3. Question 3. What was the name of the place where, in July 1916, on the first day of battle, over 20,000 British soldiers were killed? | Answer3. The Battle of the Somme | 4. Question 4. What word was used to describe the fighting in the sky done by planes during World War One? | Answer 4. Dogfight | 5. Question 5. At the end of World War One in Germany what was the name of the Republic that took over as the new government? | Answer 5. Weimar | 6. Question 6.In 1923 what caused the money in Germany to lose its value? | Answer 6. Hyperinflation | 7. Question 7. The Nazi beliefs included rearming Germany and creating a 'master race'. What word was the name given to the blond hair and blue eyed German who was seen as pure? | Answer 7. Aryan | 8. Question 8. Hitler and the Nazis came to power for a variety of reasons (which you need to study for the exam!) such as unhappiness at the Treaty of Versailles, Hitler's wide range of promises, economic depression and attacks on other political parties. What key word describes the Nazis use of methods such as posters with strong messages to persuade people? | Answer 8. Propaganda | 9. Question 9. The Nazis took control of many parts of society such as education, the workplace and the free time of the citizens. What was the name given to the movement that young boys from 14-18 could join? | Answer 9. Hitler Youth | 10. Question 10. What was the name given to the private army of the Nazis that were also called the SA? | Answer 10. Stormtroopers | 11. Question 11. In August 1934, Adolf Hitler combined the jobs of President and Chancellor into one all powerful tile, what was it? | Answer 11. Fuhrer | 12. Question 12. Between 1917 and 1927 China was ruled by what type of military rulers in the different provinces? | Answer 12. Warlords | 13. Question 13. After the Japanese had been defeated in World War Two and had left China in 1945 the country fell into what type of war (i.e. when people of the same country fight each other)? | Answer 13. Civil War | 14. Question 14. What was the more common or well known name given to the CCP's Second Five Year plan which lasted from 1958-1961? | Answer 14. The Great Leap Forward | 15. Question 15. In what year did the Cultural Revolution start? | Answer 15. 1966 |
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