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. When did Stalin die? | 1953 | 2. What did Khrushchev tell Tito in 1955? | 'there are different roads to communism. | 3. What was Khrushchev’s policy called? | peaceful coexistence | 4. What was the first satellite and when was it launched? | Sputnik in 1957 | 5. When did Russia get the hydrogen bomb? | 1953 | 6. What was the military alliance set up by Khrushchev, and how many countries were in? | Warsaw Pact and 8 countries | 7. Which American senator led a ‘witch-hunt’ for communists in America? | McCarthy | 8. What did NATO agree to in 1955 in West Germany? | W.German army of half million. | 9. Name the FIVE crises after 1955? | 1956Poland. | 10. List the 3reasons for the Hungarian uprising? | Poverty,Russian control. | 11. Who became the Prime Minister of Hungary after the uprising? | Imre Nagy | 12. Who did the Americans elect as their President in 1961? | JFK | 13. What date did Khrushchev begin to build the Berlin Wall? | 13 August 1961. | 14. Why did the Korean war break out-8marks? | split38th parallel Syngman Rheeboasted. | 15. Describe one effect of the Berlin Crisis on relations between superpower? | cold war got worse, NATO set up & later Warsaw Pact, Germany divided. |
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