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: Civil War and Fascism | war between groups within a country and theory that puts the needs of a county above the needs of the individual people | 2. Who became the leader of the Soviet Union after Lenin’s death? | Stalin | 3. Why were the Russian people so eager to accept communism? | They were struggling due to WWI, many did not have food or jobs. The communist government promised them money, food, and jobs so they eagerly accepted them. | 4. Explain how WWI, Europe, Farmers, and the Great Depression are all connected. | During WWI farmers in the United States borrowed money from banks in order to produce more food for the soldiers fighting in Europe. When the war was over they did not need as much food due to the facts that the population had dropped and the government was no longer supplying food for soldiers. This caused farmers to make less money so they could not pay back the banks. The banks not getting money back was one reason that lead to the Great Depression. | 5. Define: Communism and Dictator | ideal society where all people share everything and absolute ruler | 6. Who was the dictator in the following countries: Soviet Union, Italy, Germany | Stalin, Mussolini and Hitler | 7. The following describe the dictatorships of who: He promised to create an ideal society for his people, He promised everyone in his country would share the wealth, Over 5 million people from his country were arrested, deported, or killed | Stalin | 8. The following describe the dictatorships of who: He promised to return Italy to the glory of the Roman Empire, He turned Italy into a police state, He promised that he would not let Communism take over Italy | Mussolini | 9. The following describe the dictatorships of who: He took away the Jew’s liberties, He promised to restore Germany’s economy | Hitler | 10. Hitler and Mussolini signed what to that stated they would help protect each other? | The Rome-Berlin Axis Pact | 11. Explain the German-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact. | An agreement between Hitler and Stalin stating that they would not attack each other and that they would help protect each other | 12. How did Fascist become stronger? | Militarism | 13. Define: Aggression and Genocide | War like action and planned killing of a race | 14. Define: Anti-Semitism and Police State | hatred of Jews and using secret police to punish people who rebel or protest | 15. When was D-Day? | June 6, 1944 | 16. Cities that Hitler built to send Jews to were called what? | Ghettos | 17. What are two ways that others tried to help the Jewish people? | They would hide them in their homes and they would help them escape to other countries | 18. France and Great Britain knew that were going to have to go to war with Germany when Hitler did what? | When Hitler invaded the neutral country of Poland, Great Britain and France knew they were going to have to go to war. | 19. Who did Hitler blame for the loss of WWI? | The Jews | 20. Explain life in the concentration camps. | The people had to work 7 days a week, they were given little food, if they were viewed as weak they would be sent to gas champers |
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