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 empire controlled much of the ME from the 1300s until the early 1900s? | The Ottoman Empire | 2. Why was the Ottoman Empire broken into numerous smaller countries at the end of World War I? | The Ottoman Empire was on the losing side in the war and the winners decided to take control of some of the Ottoman land | 3. Who drew up the boundaries of the new countries created from the Ottoman Empire at the end of World War I? | European politicans - British and French | 4. What led to inceased conflict in the ME shortly after World War I? | European politicians didn't take into account religious and ethnic groups when creating borders for countries in the ME | 5. Who was ignored by the European countries as they created new countries from the Ottoman Empire? | Religious and ethnic groups | 6. Why is the city of Jerusalem often a part of religious conflicts in the ME? | Jerusalem is considered a holy city for Jews, Christians, and Muslims | 7. Why is the land of Israel historically important to the Jewish people? | God promised the land to them in ancient times (Biblical times) | 8. What is Zionism? | The worldwide movement that believed that Jews deserved to return to Zion where they had lived in Biblical times | 9. What was the major goal for Zionists? | A self-ruling Jewish homeland | 10. What event increased international support for a modern state of Israel in 1948? | The Holocaust | 11. Describe the Holocaust | The murder of millions of European Jews during World War I | 12. How did the Holocaust lead to the creation of modern Israel? | Zionists believed the Holocaust survivors needed a place to gather and grieve | 13. What world organization created the new state of Israel in 1948 as a homeland for the Jews? | the United Nations | 14. How did Arabs living in Palestine in 1948 feel about the creation of the new state of Israel? | They rejected it as unfair to them | 15. Which 2 groups fought to stop the formation of the country of Israel by waging war in 1948? | The Palestinians and neighboring Arab nations | 16. When war broke out in Palestine, what countries joined with the Palestinian Arabs to try to stop the creation of the new state of Israel? | Neighboring Arab countries | 17. What happened to the land that the U.N. promised to the Palestinians after they were soundly defeated by the Jews in the 1948 War for Israeli Independence? | The Jews gained control of the land after defeating the Palestinians | 18. What was the outcome of the 1948 War between the new state of Israel and the Arabs living in and around Palestine? | Israel won the war and gained more land | 19. What is a "refugee"? | A person who has to leave their home as a result of war | 20. What has become of many of the Palestinians who became refugees in 1948? | Many still live in refugee camps | 21. What is the major cause for the conflicts between Israel and the Palestinians as well as neighboring Arab nations? | Religion; Israel - Jewish and Palestinians and Arabs - Islam | 22. What are two priorities of the U.S. in the ME today? | Protection of Israel and security of the world's oil trade | 23. Describe the relationship between Arabs and Israelis today? | These two groups disagree about the existence of Israel and the land it controls | 24. The presence of which natural resource in the ME requires the U.S. to spend large amounts of money to help maintain peace in the region? | Oil | 25. What was the military action called when the U.S. in 1990 planned to keep a dictator from taking over a large part of the world's oil supply in the ME? | Operation Desert Storm and/or Persian Gulf War | 26. Why did the U.N. try to stop Iraq from taking over Kuwait in 1990? | The U.N. has to intervene whenever any member nation has a conflict with another country | 27. Who are the "Taliban"? | A group of radical Muslims who use to control Afghanistan's government | 28. Why did the U.S. bomb and invade Afghanistan in 2001? | The U.S. believed the Afghanistan government was offering safety to al-Qaeda, the group responsible for 911 | 29. Why did the U.S. go to war against Iraq in 2003? | The U.S. government saw Iraq's leader, Saddam Hussein, as a threat to peace and U.S. interests in the ME | 30. What does anti-Semitism mean? | Hatred of the Jews |
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