QR Challenge: The Peloponnesian War Internet Activity
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. What was the Delian League? |
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2. Why did the city-state of Athens upset the city-states of Corinth and Sparta? |
| 3. Who was the man responsible for turning Athens into a powerful city-state? |
| 4. What were the two alliances formed within Greece called (look at the map)? |
| 5. In 440’s, a war broke out between whom? What were the conditions of the treaty? |
| 6. Right before the Peloponnesian War began, which city-state(s) sided with Sparta and which city-state(s) sided with Athens? |
| 7. What was Pericles’ strategy when Sparta attacked Athens? What flaw did this strategy end up producing? |
| 8. How did Pericles die and who replaced him? |
| 9. Who was defeated in the Peloponnesian War? |
| 10. What were the “Final Results” of the Peloponnesian War? How was Athens effected? How was Greece in general effected? | |
The Peloponnesian War Internet Activity : QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=What_was_the_Delian_League?
Question 1 (of 10)
The Peloponnesian War Internet Activity : QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Why_did_the_city-state_of_Athens_upset_the_city-states_of_Corinth_and_Sparta?
Question 2 (of 10)
The Peloponnesian War Internet Activity : QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Who_was_the_man_responsible_for_turning_Athens_into_a_powerful_city-state?
Question 3 (of 10)
The Peloponnesian War Internet Activity : QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=What_were_the_two_alliances_formed_within_Greece_called_(look_at_the_map)?
Question 4 (of 10)
The Peloponnesian War Internet Activity : QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=In_440’s,_a_war_broke_out_between_whom?__What_were_the_conditions_of_the_treaty?
Question 5 (of 10)
The Peloponnesian War Internet Activity : QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Right_before_the_Peloponnesian_War_began,_which_city-state(s)_sided_with_Sparta_and_which_city-state(s)_sided_with_Athens?
Question 6 (of 10)
The Peloponnesian War Internet Activity : QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=What_was_Pericles’_strategy_when_Sparta_attacked_Athens?___What_flaw_did_this_strategy_end_up_producing?
Question 7 (of 10)
The Peloponnesian War Internet Activity : QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=How_did_Pericles_die_and_who_replaced_him?
Question 8 (of 10)
The Peloponnesian War Internet Activity : QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Who_was_defeated_in_the_Peloponnesian_War?
Question 9 (of 10)
The Peloponnesian War Internet Activity : QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=What_were_the_“Final_Results”_of_the_Peloponnesian_War?__How_was_Athens_effected?__How_was_Greece_in_general_effected?
Question 10 (of 10)
