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. What are the two opposing countries in the Cold War? | USA and USSR | 2. What is the US foreign policy during the Cold War? | containment | 3. What countries were helped in the Truman Doctrine? | Greece and Turkey | 4. What region of the world is helped with the Marshall Plan? | western Europe | 5. What new organization was created to keep the peace in the world? | United Nations | 6. Where was Korea split? | 38th parallel | 7. North Korea attacked South Korea which create the Korean War. True or False | True | 8. What is the name of the first satellite put into space? | sputnik | 9. What country put the first satellite into space? | Soviet Union | 10. Why did the US conduct the Berlin Airlift? | to get around the Soviet Blockade | 11. Who was the communist leader of China? | Mao Zedong | 12. Fear that if one country falls to communism so will the surrounding | domino theory | 13. What general was relieved of his duties in the Korean War? | General MacArthur | 14. Structure built down the center of Berlin in order to stop East Germans from escaping | Berlin Wall | 15. Took control of Cuba in 1959 | Fidel Castro |
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