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 is Muller’s plan for Kemmerich’s boots?5 | Do you think this is cruel?5 | 2. Why is Kantorek wrong in referring to these young men as “Iron Youth”6 | Because they are not youth anymore, since they have aged so much by the cruelties of the war, and they are not iron, they only distract themselves by not thinking about the cruelties.6 | 3. Who is Corporal Himmelstoss?7 | He is the leader of No.9 platoon in which all of the boys/men previously described are stationed. In civilian life, he was a postman, and he often gives Tjaden and Paul a hard time/extra ridiculous commands to complete.7 | 4. Kemmerich’s death illustrates part of the central message of the novel. Do you have an idea of what this message is?8 | War destroys innocence, steals life, and concerns itself with nothing, not even the individual. War steals from the innocent and gives to the whole.8 |
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