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. Sovereignty | A nation or state's supreme power within its borders. A government might respond, for example, to criticism from foreign governments of its treatment of its own citizens by citing its rights of _______________. | 2. Internationalism | The principle of cooperation among nations, for the promotion of their common good. The view that nations should cooperate in international organizations, such as the United Nations, to settle disputes. | 3. National Interest | The strong belief that the interests of a particular nation-state are of primary importance. Also, the belief that a people who share a common language, history, and culture should constitute an independent nation, free of foreign domination. A country's goals and ambitions whether economic, military, or cultural. | 4. Nation | An aggregation of people or peoples of one or more cultures, races, etc, organized into a single state | 5. Colonialism | The control of one nation by “transplanted” people of another nation — often a geographically distant nation that has a different culture and dominant racial or ethnic group. Settlement of a country by settlers from another country who remain connected to the parent nation. | 6. State | A sovereign political power or community.Organised political community under one government. | 7. Citizen | A native or naturalized member of a state or nation who owes allegiance to its government and is entitled to its protection | 8. Human rights | Fundamental rights, especially those believed to belong to an individual and in whose exercise a government may not interfere, as the rights to speak, associate, work, etc. | 9. Globalisation | The emergence since the 1980s of a single world market dominated by multinational companies, leading to a diminishing capacity for national governments to control their economies. | 10. Environmentalist | Any person who advocates or works to protect the air, water, animals, plants, and other natural resources from pollution or its effects | 11. Democratisation | Moving towards government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system. | 12. Multilateralism | Trade or diplomatic negotiations among several nations. | 13. Unilateralism | Action initiated or taken by a single nation rather than by two nations or several. | 14. Security | Freedom from danger, risk, etc.; safety. | 15. Genocide | The deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group. | 16. NGO | Non-governmental organisation. An organisation that is not-for-profit and provides social help and care. | 17. Refugee | A person who flees for refuge or safety, especially to a foreign country, as in time of political upheaval, war, etc. | 18. Disarmament | The reduction or limitation of the size, equipment, armament, etc., of the army, navy, or air force of a country | 19. Terrorism | The use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, especially for political purposes. | 20. Organised Crime | Transnational, national, or local groupings of highly centralized enterprises run by criminals, who intend to engage in illegal activity, most commonly for monetary profit. |
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