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. 1)What happened to Germany’s boundaries as a result of losing the war? | Germany was split into East and West. | 2. 2)Franklin D. Roosevelt was not the leader of his nation when World War II came to an end. Why not? | He died shortly before the end of the war. | 3. 3)How did the leaders in Europe originally respond to Hitler’s aggression? | They responded by meeting his demands through appeasement. | 4. 4)What organization was formed to keep world peace and support cooperation between nations? | The United Nations | 5. 5)Why did President Harry S. Truman decided to drop the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of WWII? | To save American lives and end the war quickly. | 6. 6)During World War II, the U.S. government ordered Japanese Americans to live where until the war was over? | Internment Camps | 7. 7)What happened after the bombing of Pearl Harbor (what did the US do)? | Entered World War II | 8. 8)Which country controlled most of Eastern Europe after the war? | The Soviet Union | 9. 9)How did World War II affect the United States economy? | Brought the US out of the Great Depression | 10. 10)Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill were all leaders of which alliance? | The Allied Powers | 11. 11)Winston Churchill was the leader of which country? | Great Britain | 12. 12)Franklin D Roosevelt was the leader of which country? | United States | 13. 13)Joseph Stalin was the leader of which country? | Soviet Union | 14. 14)What year did World War II end? | 1945 | 15. 15)On D-Day, June 6, 1944, Allied forces did what? | Stormed the beaches of Normandy, France | 16. 16)What group of people was welcomed into the military to do some of the more undesirable tasks, but were still discriminated against at home? | African Americans | 17. 17)During World War II, why did many women who entered the workforce? | they needed to fill the labor shortage left when the men went off to war | 18. 18)“Rosie the Riveter,” is a fictional character who became popular during World War II.Who did she represent? | the women who worked in the factories while the men went off to war |
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