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. What was the name of the first Nazis concentration camp? | Dachau | 2. Explain what life was like at the first Nazis concentration camp. | long hours of work very little food, tortured and made fun of. | 3. What was VE Day and when did it occur? | Victory in Europe May 1945 | 4. What was V-J Day and when did it occur? | Victory in Japan September 1945 | 5. What was the significance of Pearl Harbor and when did it occur? | December 7, 1941 | 6. Describe what happened at Pas de Calais and the significance it had on the D-Day invasion against Germany. | Fake army General Patton in charge and it distracted Hitler on D-Day. | 7. What was the significance of island hopping? | The United States campaign during the war in the Pacific getting closer and closer to the mainland of Japan. | 8. What was the name of the bloodiest battle during the War in the Pacific? | Okinawa | 9. Where were 24 Nazis war criminals sent to trial after World War 2? | Nuremberg, Germany | 10. Name three major countries that fought for the Axis Powers during World War 2. | Japan, Germany, and Italy | 11. Name four major countries that fought for the Allies during World War 2. | United States, France, Soviet Union, Great Britain. | 12. What country did Germany attack first and what military strategy did Germany use early during World War 2? | Poland and Blitzkrieg | 13. What was the Manhattan Project? Who was the leader over this project and who was the President of the United States when the bombs were dropped? | Secret construction of the atomic bomb Robert Oppenheimer and President Truman | 14. What Japanese city was bombed first by the United States and then second, what were the names of the bombs and what was the Enola Gay? | Hiroshima and Nagasaki Little Boy and Fat Man Enola Gay was the plane that dropped the bomb on Hiroshima | 15. What role did each of the following individuals have during the war and what country was the individual from: Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Benito Mussolini, Adolph Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Charles de Gaulle, Harry Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Albert Einstein | Britain Prime Minister, U.S. President most of the war, Italy Dictator, Germany Dictator, Soviet Union Leader, France Leader, U.S. President at the end of the war dropping the bomb, U.S. general D-Day, U.S. Bomb | 16. What were three reasons why the United States dropped the bombs on Japan? | Intimidation of the Soviets, Saving American Lives, Unconditional surrender of Japan. | 17. When did World War 2 begin and end? | 1939-1945 | 18. What was the main reason why the Nazis killed the Jews? | Blaming the Jews for losing World War 1. | 19. Who was Elie Wiessel? | Survivor of Auschwitz | 20. Where was Anne Frank living when she was captured? | Netherlands |
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