QR Challenge: WW2 Treasure Hunt

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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 date did WW2 start?	1st September, 1939
2. Who was Adolf Hitler?	Leader of Germany/Head of the Nazis
3. Which country did Germany invade to cause the start of the war?	Poland
4. Write at least 3 words to describe how the children in this photo might have been feeling?	Distraught, terrified, lonely
5. What is the name of this symbol?	The Swastika
6. What kind of people are Aryans?	White people with blonde hair and blue eyes
7. What did the Nazis believe?	That Aryans were the superior race
8. Was Germany part of the Axis or Allies?	Axis
9. This man the leader of a country during WW2. Draw its flag.	Italian Flag
10. Name 3 countries that were part of the allies.	Britain, France, Russia, Greece, USA, Australia, India, Russia & Poland
11. Describe what you see in this photograph.
12. Who was Prime Minister of Great Britain when the war started?	Neville Chamberlain
13. Who was Winston Churchill?	The Prime Minister of Britain from 1940
14. Who was the Russian leader during the war?	Joseph Stalin
15. A) What is happening in this photograph? B) Why was the purpose of this?	Evacuation/It was thought that children would be safer in the countryside.
16. Which country swapped sides in 1943 from the Axis to the Allies?	Italy
17. What date did the war end in Britain?	8th May, 1945
18. What does VE day mean?	Victory in Europe
19. Who won the war: the Axis or the Allies?	Allies
20. Choose one of these WW2 propaganda posters. Explain what you think it means. What is it encouraging or discouraging people to do? Why?	Grow their own food to help win the war/Stop people gossiping so it doesn't advantage the enemy.