QR Challenge: Battles of World War II
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. Annexed in the 1938 Anschluss | Austria
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2. Italy invaded here in 1935 | Ethiopia
| 3. Site of the 'dress rehearsal' for Hitler | Spain
| 4. This was the country that was 1st invaded in World War II | Poland
| 5. This nation used a new style of warfare called blitzkrieg | Germany
| 6. Germans bypassed the Maginot Line here... | Belgium
| 7. Bombings took place every day for two months but they weren't taken over | London
| 8. After this battle, a German victory in the east seemed imminent | Leningrad
| 9. Here, the Allied powers began to push Rommel across the desert | El Alamein
| 10. Site of the largest amphibious landing in history | Normandy, France
| 11. In 1943, 300,000 Axis troops are trapped here... | Tunisia
| 12. This battle marks the turning point of the Russian campaign | Stalingrad
| 13. The invasion of this nation was code named Operation Barbarossa | Russia
| 14. The invasion of this nation was code named Operation Sea Lion | Britain
| 15. The Vichy Government, in this country, cooperated with Hitler | France |
Battles of World War II: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Annexed-in-the-1938-Anschluss
Question 1 (of 15)
Battles of World War II: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Italy-invaded-here-in-1935
Question 2 (of 15)
Battles of World War II: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Site-of-the-'dress-rehearsal'-for-Hitler
Question 3 (of 15)
Battles of World War II: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=This-was-the-country-that-was-1st-invaded-in-World-War-II
Question 4 (of 15)
Battles of World War II: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=This-nation-used-a-new-style-of-warfare-called-blitzkrieg
Question 5 (of 15)
Battles of World War II: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Germans-bypassed-the-Maginot-Line-here...
Question 6 (of 15)
Battles of World War II: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Bombings-took-place-every-day-for-two-months-but-they-weren't-taken-over
Question 7 (of 15)
Battles of World War II: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=After-this-battle,-a-German-victory-in-the-east-seemed-imminent
Question 8 (of 15)
Battles of World War II: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Here,-the-Allied-powers-began-to-push-Rommel-across-the-desert
Question 9 (of 15)
Battles of World War II: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Site-of-the-largest-amphibious-landing-in-history
Question 10 (of 15)
Battles of World War II: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=In-1943,-300,000-Axis-troops-are-trapped-here...
Question 11 (of 15)
Battles of World War II: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=This-battle-marks-the-turning-point-of-the-Russian-campaign
Question 12 (of 15)
Battles of World War II: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=The-invasion-of-this-nation-was-code-named-Operation-Barbarossa
Question 13 (of 15)
Battles of World War II: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=The-invasion-of-this-nation-was-code-named-Operation-Sea-Lion
Question 14 (of 15)
Battles of World War II: QR Challenge
https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=The-Vichy-Government,-in-this-country,-cooperated-with-Hitler
Question 15 (of 15)
