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. Question: List the causes of World War I (Hint:MANIACS) | Answer Militarism, Assassination of ArchDuke, Nationalism, Imperialism, Alliances, Colonial Competition, Socialism | 2. Question2: Who assassinated the Archduke? | Answer2: A Serbian Nationalist | 3. Question3: Who made up the Triple Alliance? | Answer3: Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy | 4. Question 4: Who made up the Triple Entente? | Answer4: Great Britain, France and Russia | 5. Question 5: Name 3 new pieces of military technology that changed the way wars were fought | Answer5: Tanks, Airplanes, Machine Guns | 6. Question 6: What event brought the United States into the war? | Answer6: The sinking of the Lusitania | 7. Question 7: Who was the president of the United States during World War 1? | Answer7: Woodrow Wilson | 8. Question 8: What was the deadliest battle of the war? | Answer8: Battle of the Somme | 9. Question 9: What kind of warfare was used during World War I? | Answer9: Trench warfare | 10. Question 10: Why did Russia leave the war in 1917? | Answer10: The Russian Revolution broke out | 11. Question 11: Who one the war? | Answer11: The Allies | 12. Question 12: What Treaty ended the war? | Answer12: The Treaty of Versailles | 13. Question 13: Who was burdened with the blame of the war and forced to pay reparations to the other countries? | Answer13: Germany | 14. Question 14: True or False: World War I and the Treaty of Versailles were a direct cause of World War II. | Answer14:True | 15. Question 15: What disease in 1918 killed more people than World War I? | Answer15: Spanish Flu |
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