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. | 2. 1.By the end of WWII, how many Canadians served in this war? | more than 1000000 | 3. 1a.How many died? | 42042 | 4. 2.What proved to be Hitler’s first major mistake? | ordered the Wehrmacht to pull back | 5. 2a.How did the unpredictability of the weather play a role? | fog kept aircraft on the ground | 6. 3.What was the miracle of Dunkirk? | 340000 soldiers rescued by boats | 7. 4.How much of Europe did Hitler control after he took control of France | Poland to Atlantic ocean | 8. 4a.What was left to prevent a complete Nazi takeover? | Britain and allies | 9. 5.List 3 reasons why Aboriginal Canadians may have enlisted in WWII. | loyalty, defeat tyranny, paycheque | 10. 6.For what ethnic group was WWII dramatically different for and why? | Ukrainian Canadians | 11. 7.What was the theme song for CATS? | We will fight for the might that we know is right And even Mussolini knows that CATS can fight | 12. 7a.What does the acronym CATS stand for and why was it significant? | Canadian Auxiliary Territorial Service. Women accepted in military service | 13. 8.How did women’s roles change in WWII? | included in service and trade | 14. 9.What was the code name for Hitler’s invasion of Britain? | Operation Sea Lion | 15. 9a.What was the plan? | quick thrust forward | 16. 10.What did Hitler order on July 10, 1940? | savage air attack on ships in English channel | 17. 10a.What was the result? | at first very succesful, but Germany failed to seize the English channel | 18. 11.What did Canadian bombers become “experts” at? | flying blind | 19. 12.What happened on July 24, 27 and August 3, 1943? | 3 bombings in Germany | 20. 13.What was Operation Barbarossa? | Hitler's surprise attack on the Soviet Union | 21. 14.What tactic did Japan use to allow them to plan an attack on Pearl Harbor? | let allies think they were considering peace but planning attacks | 22. 15.How long did the attack on Pearl Harbor last? | less than 2 hours | 23. 16.Why did the Canadians at Honk Kong never have a chance? | needed training, and physically not ready | 24. 17.Briefly describe the Battle of Dieppe. | intended to draw Germans away from Russia, very few made it to Dieppe, 1000 dead, 2000 captured, 500 wounded | 25. 18.Describe the Italian campaign and how much ground the Allies gained by the fall of 1943. | summer 1943, moving up Italian peninsula, Mussolini deposed, Germans rescue, Mussolini executed 650 km | 26. 19.During the Normandy invasion, “Funnies” were built. What were they? | Sherman tank go through water, obstacles, mines etc | 27. 20.When did D Day begin? | June 6, 1944 | 28. 21.Who met in February 1945 in Yalta? What were they discussing? | main leaders of Allied forces, lay foundations for post war Europe | 29. 22.In April of 1945, as Soviet troops picked through the rubble in Berlin, what did they discover? | Hitler and Eva Braun committed suicide | 30. 23.Why do Dutch school children travel annually to the Canadian cemeteries in the Netherlands? | to honour the soldiers that liberated the Netherlands | 31. 24.What is anti-Semitism? | hatred of Jews | 32. 25.What was discussed and decided at the Wannsee Conference in January 1942? | SS officials worked on "Jewish problem" to murder 11 million Jews | 33. 26.What was slave labour known as? | productive annihilation | 34. 27.In Auschwitz, how many people could be gassed at one time? | 2000 | 35. 28.How did the Nazis destroy the Warsaw resistance? | systematically blowing up houses | 36. 29.What did the allies discover when they arrived at the concentration camps that became known as the Holocaust? | corpses, mass graves, survivors like skeletons | 37. 30.What is a kamikaze attack? | aircraft flown into US warships, killing self and many US soldiers | 38. 31.What did US ‘President Harry Truman believe the atomic bomb could prevent? | force Japan to surrender without invasion, saving half a million American lives | 39. 32.Provide details about the dropping of the atomic bomb. | Aug 6, 1945, Enola Gay, Hiroshima, Little Boy, 8:15 am, first ever nuclear bomb | 40. 32a.Why was a second bomb dropped? | asked for peace, no answer from Japan | 41. 32b.What resulted because of this bomb? | Aug 9, 1945 Fat Man, Nagasaki, 40000 killed, Japan surrendered unconditionally |
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