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. Which country did Germany invade that brought England into the war? | Poland | 2. Name the process that countries followed when Hitler began invading surrounding regions? | appeasement | 3. What was the name of the fascist party that Hitler led? | Nazi | 4. What is the name of the operation that saw Germany invade Russia? | Barbarossa | 5. Where were the allies evacuated from at the start of world war 2? | Dunkirk | 6. People of conquered countries who frustrated the plans of the Germans with acts of sabotage were called? | resistance | 7. Women and civilians taking jobs in factories and farms to keep the war effort supplied was known as? | home front | 8. Releasing only that information which is helpful to the war effort and putting a spin on it that keeps people hopeful is known as? | propaganda | 9. World War 2 was fought in these areas of the world;The Pacific and parts of Asia and New Guinea against which country? | Japan | 10. What is the name of the treaty signed by countries at the end of World War 1? | Versailles | 11. What was the name given to the group of countries that sided with Germany in WW2? | axis | 12. Who were the 3 main allied powers of WW2? | Britain,USA,Russia | 13. Was Australia involved in World War 2? | yes | 14. What were the Australians that fought in Tobruk, Northern Africa called by their enemy? | Rats of Tobruk | 15. What is the name of the track that Australian soldiers stopped the Japanese from crossing in Papua New Guinea? | Kokoda | 16. When was the date of the D-Day landings at Normandy,France? | 6th June 1944 | 17. Which 3 countries made up the axis powers? | Germany, Japan, Italy | 18. What is the name of the harbour that Japan attacked and brought the USA into WW2? | Pearl Harbour | 19. On what date did Britain and France declare war on Germany? | 3rd September 1939 |
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