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. BOPS Bank Failures, Overproduction, Protectionism and Stock Market Crash | 4 Causes of the Great Depression | 2. Reparations effect on the German economy included hyperinflation, price of goods rising, German currency falling in value | How the German economy was hurt | 3. Centralized control by a dictator that rises after WWI. Highly nationalistic and militaristic, occurred in Italy, Germany and the Soviet Union. | Define Totalitarianism | 4. Competing governments after WWI-Republic; rule by law (Constitution), Things done to benefit the country and Nationalistic, In theory, ALL are Equal | characteristics | 5. Japan, a small island nation, wanted to control other countries to gain natural resources | reason for expansion | 6. Goals-to stop all future wars and settle disputes between nations | League of Nations | 7. Weakness-All nations were not members and members gave the League of Nation no power to intervene | weakness | 8. When a country or group gives in to the demands of an aggressor in hope of keeping peace. | definition of appeasement | 9. Japan's Action Take over of the South Pacific-invasion of China, Korea and other Pacific island to control resources and provide space for growing population and Rape of Nanjing-They murder and rape hundreds of thousands in China | action prior to WWII | 10. Italy's Action-Ethiopia-Italy quickly overwhelms them and achieves victory. Italy adds Ethiopia to its Colonial Empire | action prior to WWII | 11. Germany's Action-Remilitarization-increases army to 300,000+weapons. Rhineland-Germans re-enter this area. Anschluss/Austria-Germans walk in and take control without firing a shot. Sudetenland/Czechoslovakia-Germans take control as result of Munich Conference. Poland-Germans use blitzkrieg for a quick victory. | action prior to WWII | 12. Reaction to Japan-The world and the League of Nations do nothing | nothing | 13. Reaction to Italy-The emperor pleads to the League of Nations but no help is given (“. . . It is us today. It will be you tomorrow.”) | something | 14. Reaction to Germany-Nothing more than warning letters from the LON and former Allies and Munich Conference was to protect the rest of Czech, but Hitler took it anyway which was a Declaration of War | something |
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