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. 1. Following the Opium War what Chinese island was ceded to Britain? | Hong Kong | 2. 2. What treaty allowed for this cession of territory to Great Britain? | Treaty of Nanjing" | 3. 3. What year was this territory returned to China? | 1997 | 4. 4. In the 1911 Revolution, what individual was instrumental in overthrowing the Qing Dynasty? | Sun Yat-sen | 5. 5. What nationalist leader fought against communism in the 1920's? | Chaing Kai-shek | 6. 6. What country invaded China in the 1930's and committed widespread human rights atrocities? | Japan | 7. 7. Name two of Sun Yat-sen's principle goals for a reunited China. | democracy, nationalism, livelihood | 8. 8. What two leaders fought a decades long "war" for control of China? | Chaing Kai-shek and Mao Zedong | 9. 9. What faction or group participated in the 6,000 mile march? | Communists | 10. 10. What were the beginning and end end points of the 6,000 mile march? | Jiangsu to Yanan, Central to Northwest | 11. 11. What group did Chiang Kai-shek view as a bigger threat than the Japanese? | Communists | 12. 12. Describe the concept of "land reform" in China. | collective ownership... | 13. 13. What year did China become Communist? | 1949 | 14. 14. What was the goal of the "Great Leap Forward"? | Industrial production | 15. 15. Was the "Great Leap Forward" successful? | No | 16. 16. Referring to question 15, why or why not? | poor quality of steel, famine, environment.... |
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