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. These three powers signed the Tripartite Treaty on September 27, 1940 and became the Axis powers | Italy, Germany, and Japan | 2. The phrase FDR used to describe the United States during a Fireside Chat in 1940 when he told audiences that it would be impossible to negotiate peace with Hitler and that the United States had to help the Allies | Great Arsenal of Democracy | 3. This was a joint declaration of war aims signed by Churchill and FDR in August of 1941 and which became the basis for the "Declaration of United Nations" | Atlantic Charter | 4. On this date, Pearl Harbor was attacked by the Japanese | December 7, 1941 | 5. This project was launched in 1942 with the goal of building the atomic bomb | The Manhattan Project | 6. This was a key battle on the eastern front of Europe which occurred between 1942 and 1943 and was a decisive turning point for the Soviet troops | Battle of Stalingrad | 7. This famous WWII general and future U.S. president led the Allied invasion of North Africa during WWII | Dwight D. Eisenhower | 8. The date of D-Day | June 6, 1944 | 9. The code name for D-Day | Operation Overlord | 10. This battle occurred in the fall of 1944 and was a last ditch effort by Hitler to break the Allied line, although it resulted in a German lost of 120,000 troops and led to a Nazi retreat | Battle of the Bulge | 11. The year in which WWII came to a close | 1945 | 12. This was a strategic island in the Pacific located north of Hawaii that the Japanese unsuccessfully attempted to take in June of 1942 | Midway | 13. This was a critical base for the U.S. to take in the Pacific and the battle for it occurred between February and March of 1945, during which time, the U.S. lost the most troops of any battle in the Pacific up until that time | Iwo Jima | 14. The two Japanese cities on which the United States dropped atomic bombs | Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
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