QR Challenge: Year 9 History WWI Treasure Hunt

Created using the ClassTools QR Treasure Hunt Generator

Teacher Notes

A. Prior to the lesson:

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

• Download a QR reader (e.g. I-Nigma | NeoReader | Kaywa) onto their mobile devices
• Bring these devices into the lesson.

3. Print out the QR codes.

4. Cut them out and place them around your class / school.

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B. The lesson:

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!

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C. TIPS / OTHER IDEAS

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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Questions / Answers (teacher reference)

Question	Answer
1. Which region of Europe was known as 'the powder keg of Europe?	The Balkans
2. Who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand on 28 June 1914?	Gavrilo Princip
3. What was the alliance of Germany, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire called?	Central Powers
4. Who were the three most important members of the Triple Entente?	UK, France, Russia
5. What is the policy of glorifying military power and using force to resolve disagreements?	Militarism
6. On which date did ANZAC troops land at Gallipoli?	25 April 1915
7. How many Australians were killed at the Battle of Lone Pine?	2300
8. In which Gallipoli battle were the Australian Light Horse slaughtered?	The Nek
9. What is the name for the unoccupied ground between the front lines of opposing armies?	No Man's Land
10. What strategy to boost Australian troop numbers was rejected in two referendums?	Conscription
11. What does 'Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori' translate to in English?	It is sweet and honourable to die for one's country
12. How many British soldiers were killed on the first day of the battle of the Somme?	20,000 (19,240)
13. Who was the leader of the Turkish Army at Gallipoli?	Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
14. When was the armistice to stop fighting signed?	11 November 1918
15. What was the name of Germany's plan to fight France and Russia?	The Schlieffen Plan
16. Which important country switched sides during the war?	Italy
17. How many Australian soldiers dies in WWI?	60,000 approx
18. How many Australian soldiers enlisted during WWI?	330,000 approx.
19. How many Australian died in the whole Gallipoli Campaign?	8709
20. What was the nickname for the medical condition suffered by soldiers who let their feet stay wet for too long?	Trench foot

 

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