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. Name the two superpower countries | United States & Soviet Union | 2. What country was dictatorial and communist? | Soviet Union | 3. What countries did the Soviet Union dominate during the Cold War? | Eastern European Countries | 4. America's policy of containment wanted to stop what? | Communism | 5. Complete this analogy: USA : NATO, Soviet Union : _________ | Warsaw Pact | 6. Where did the Soviets place missiles, leading to a missile crisis? | Cuba | 7. What did the US do to Cuba that caused the Soviet Union to withdraw missiles? | Blockade | 8. What was the theory that caused the US to intervene in Vietnam to stop the spread of communism? | Domino Theory | 9. With the collapse of communism in Europe, the Soviet Union was broken up into what? | Independent Countries | 10. What divided Germany's capital city? | Berlin Wall | 11. (Review) Who was the leader of the Soviet Union during WWII? | Joseph Stalin | 12. What is the economic system used by the United States? | Capitalism | 13. What are three things that the United States and the Soviet Union competed with each other over during the cold war? | Atomic weapons, outer space, sports | 14. Which term refers to the American policy of holding communism in one place and not allowing it to spread? | Containment | 15. What are three military conflicts that are associated with the Cold War? | Korean War, Vietnam War, Cuban Missile Crisis | 16. How did the United States react when Cuba suddenly obtained nuclear bombs from the Soviet Union? | They formed a naval blockade around Cuba | 17. What were the intentions of the Marshall Plan? | To rebuild Europe and prevent the spread of communism? |
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