QR Challenge: The Truth about Genocide in Guatemala
Teacher Notes
A. Prior to the lesson:
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
- Download a QR reader (e.g. I-Nigma | NeoReader | Kaywa) onto their mobile devices
- Bring these devices into the lesson.
3. Print out the QR codes.
4. Cut them out and place them around your class / school.
B. The lesson:
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!
C. TIPS / OTHER IDEAS
4. A detailed case study in how to set up a successful QR Scavenger Hunt using this tool can be found here.
Questions / Answers (teacher reference)
Question | Answer |
| 1. Central America | 1
|
2. Mayan Civilization | 2
| 3. Spanish | 3
| 4. Civil War | 4
| 5. repressive | 5
| 6. "Operation Sophia" | 6
| 7. 200,000 | 7
| 8. unmarked graves | 8
| 9. scorched earth policy | 9
| 10. Kaibiles | 10
| 11. anti-Communist | 11
| 12. Catholic priests | 12
| 13. Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity | 13
| 14. United States | 14
| 15. Genocide | 15
| 16. four | 16
| 17. "civil patrol" | 17
| 18. Felipe Cusanero | 18
| 19. General Hector Mario Lopez Fuentes | 19
| 20. 6,060 | 20 |
The Truth about Genocide in Guatemala : QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Central_America
Question 1 (of 20)
The Truth about Genocide in Guatemala : QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Mayan_Civilization
Question 2 (of 20)
The Truth about Genocide in Guatemala : QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Spanish
Question 3 (of 20)
The Truth about Genocide in Guatemala : QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Civil_War
Question 4 (of 20)
The Truth about Genocide in Guatemala : QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=repressive
Question 5 (of 20)
The Truth about Genocide in Guatemala : QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text="Operation_Sophia"
Question 6 (of 20)
The Truth about Genocide in Guatemala : QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=200,000
Question 7 (of 20)
The Truth about Genocide in Guatemala : QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=unmarked_graves
Question 8 (of 20)
The Truth about Genocide in Guatemala : QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=scorched_earth_policy
Question 9 (of 20)
The Truth about Genocide in Guatemala : QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Kaibiles
Question 10 (of 20)
The Truth about Genocide in Guatemala : QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=anti-Communist
Question 11 (of 20)
The Truth about Genocide in Guatemala : QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Catholic_priests
Question 12 (of 20)
The Truth about Genocide in Guatemala : QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Guatemalan_National_Revolutionary_Unity
Question 13 (of 20)
The Truth about Genocide in Guatemala : QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=United_States
Question 14 (of 20)
The Truth about Genocide in Guatemala : QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Genocide
Question 15 (of 20)
The Truth about Genocide in Guatemala : QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=four
Question 16 (of 20)
The Truth about Genocide in Guatemala : QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text="civil_patrol"
Question 17 (of 20)
The Truth about Genocide in Guatemala : QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Felipe_Cusanero
Question 18 (of 20)
The Truth about Genocide in Guatemala : QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=General_Hector_Mario_Lopez_Fuentes
Question 19 (of 20)
The Truth about Genocide in Guatemala : QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=6,060
Question 20 (of 20)
