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. 30. What were the technological innovations of the 50’s | televisions | 2. 31. What was a result of all the industrial growth in the 50’s | land/water pollution | 3. 32. Who was Gouzenko | Soviet Clerk who provided spy info | 4. 33. Why did the Cold War develop | Fear of Soviets,Soviets fear of US,cap vs. comm. | 5. 34. Purpose of the radar lines | detect bombers | 6. 35. Weapon that caused great fear | nuclear weapons | 7. 36. What made the DEW lines obsolete | missiles | 8. 37. What level of power was Canada in the world | middle | 9. 38. What peace organization was created in 1945 | UN | 10. 39. When year was UN founded | 1945 | 11. 40. When did Canada join the Nato Alliance | 1949 | 12. 41. Where did the US fight Communisem | korea,vietnam,Germany | 13. 42. Canadians fought in this war in the 1950s against communism | Korean War | 14. 43. Who invaded South Korean | North Korean Communists | 15. 44. Why did the Soviets not veto the UN invasion | Boycotting UN | 16. 45. Purpose of UN Security Council | Maintain world peace/security | 17. 46. What are major purposes of UN | Security,Assist financially,humanitarian | 18. 47. How did the Korean War end | ceasefire | 19. 48. Where did the UN send a peace unit | Suez Crisis | 20. 49. Which Canadian diplomant helped solve the Suez Crisis | Pearson | 21. 50. Who fought against the canal being Nationalized by the Egyptians | Britain and France | 22. 51. Who nationalized Suez the Canal | Egypt | 23. 52. Who had the idea of a UN peacekeeping force | Pearson. |
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