QR Challenge: History of the Middle East Study Guide

Created using the ClassTools QR Treasure Hunt Generator

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.

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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!

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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.

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Questions / Answers (teacher reference)

Question	Answer
1. Theocracy	government ruled by a religious group
2. Sultan	ruler of the Ottoman Empire
3. Nationalism	love for ones country- feeling your country is better than others
4. Zionism	movement to unite displaced Jews and settles them in Palestine.
5. Anti-Semitism	hatred of the Jews
6. Embargo	refusal to trade or to stop trade in a country
7. What happened to the Ottoman Empire at the end of WWI	It was divided among different countries
8. Who took over the land that was one the Ottoman Empire	Great Britain and France
9. Explain the conflict caused when new borders were established in what was once the Ottoman Empire	They countries did not take in to consideration that they were separating ethnic and religious groups as well as mixing groups who did not get along.
10. Most of the Jewish ____ are located in Palestine	Sacred places
11. Where did most of the Jewish people want to go once the Holocaust was over	Palestine
12. At the end of WWII, people around the world asked who to help the Jewish people	United Nations
13. What did the UN decided to do for the Jewish people	Create a nation for them to live in – They divided Palestine into Jewish and Arab States
14. When was Israel created	May 14, 1948
15. Since Israel was created what two groups have not been able to live peacefully	Jewish and Arab
16. What is the main concern that the USA has with the Middle East countries	Oil
17. Who was the dictator in Iraq in the 1990s	Saddam Hussein
18. What did the creation of the country Kuwait do in the Middle East	Took away Iraq’s boarder on the Persian Gulf this caused them to lose access to oil
19. When Kuwait was invaded by Iraq, Kuwait knew they had to rely on what	Allies
20. Who did Kuwait call on to help and why was that country willing to help	United States because of the US gets a lot oil from Kuwait
21. This war became known as ____	Desert Storm
22. What happened when Iraq withdrew from Kuwait	Saddam Hussein ordered his troops to set fire to oil fields
23. During this time the United Nations set a ____ against Iraq, which stated what	Embargo – they could not export any goods nor could they import any goods
24. It is believed that only ______ % of their weapons were actually destroyed by the time the UN stopped searching in Iraq	85%
25. After Desert Storm the US felt that Hussein was hiding ____ and helping ____.	Weapons of Mass Destruction / members of al-Qaeda
26. In 2003, the US and other nations launched a military invasion of Iraq called ___	Operation Iraqi Freedom
27. After winning this invasion the United States helped set up ____ in Iraq	new government
28. In December 2003, _______ was found hiding in a hole- he was captured, tried, and sentenced to death	Saddam Hussein
29. In 2005, Iraq citizens took part in a free election to establish ______	democratic government
30. To this day ____________ are still causing conflict in Iraq	Sunni and Shia Muslims
31. 2What was the goal of as-Qaeda	to put an end to western influences
32. September 11, 2001 al-Qaeda attacked who	United States
33. The al-Qaeda terrorist hijacked ____ planes	Four
34. They crashed these planes in to what places	2 Twin Tours, Pentagon, Field in Pennsylvania (intended to hit White House)
35. Who did the US believe was hiding Osama Bin Laden and where	Taliban in the mountains of Afghanistan
36. October 2001, US troops entered Afghanistan for what two reasons	Disable the Taliban and find bin Laden
37. What did the US do to help the people of Afghanistan	Form a new democratic government
38. How long did Bin Laden hide for	10 years
39. In 2011, Bin Laden was found where	Living in a compound in Pakistan

 

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