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. Define fascism | Political movement that puts the needs of the nation above the needs of the people | 2. Define communism | A theory that promises a society in which property, wealth, and food would be shared by everyone. | 3. Explain how the Germans felt after WWI | Betrayed by their government, embarrassed, upset | 4. In 1924 Mussolini took control of what country | Italy | 5. What are three things that Mussolini promised | He would return Italy to the glory of the Roman Empire | 6. Define Police State | A county where the government has complete control over the people and uses secret police to find and punish those who rebel or protest | 7. What are three things that happened in the Soviet Union when Stalin came to power | More than 5 million were killed | 8. Why was it easy for the dictators to take power | People were in search of strong leaders who could fix all of their problems. | 9. Define dictator | Someone with absolute power | 10. What was the Rome-Berlin Axis | A partnership between Hitler and Mussolini agreeing to aid one another if needed | 11. What are three promises Hitler made | Restore Germany economy | 12. What are three promises Stalin made | Industrialize the soviet union | 13. How did fascist countries become strong | Through militarism | 14. In the mid-1920s who became dictator in the Soviet Union | Joseph Stalin | 15. What countries were affected by the depression | Most countries in the world | 16. Why were there less people to feed around the world after WWI | Many died in the war | 17. Due to the depression what percent of Germany’s population was unemployed | Half | 18. Germany claimed they could make no more reparation payments, after making ___ payments to the allied nations | One | 19. France took over what in the Ruhr Valley when Germany would not pay | Mines and Factories | 20. Define inflation | Money loses value and in turn businesses have to raise prices. | 21. Who were the Bolsheviks | The communist party in Russia who helped take over the country during the revolution | 22. After the revolution the economy in the Soviet Union was ___ | A command economy | 23. What happened to the Romanov family | They were killed by the Bolsheviks | 24. Before the revolution the government in Russia was what type | Autocracy | 25. Before the revolution the economy in Russia was what type | Mixed market | 26. Why did people support the revolution in Russia | People were in search of a better life, they wanted more money and food | 27. Who became the leader when Czar Nicholas abdicated | Vladimir Lenin | 28. Why was Czar Nicholas’s wife disliked by the Russian people | She was a German princess (remember the revolution was taking place at the same time as WWI and Russia was fighting against Germany) | 29. What was Russia called after the revolution | The Soviet Union |
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