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. 1. The Jacobins in the French Revolution used their state power during the Reign of Terror to crush their political enemies. | Ter1 | 2. 2. After World War II, terrorism was used in a number of campaigns for national independence in places such as Kenya, Cyprus and South Yemen. | Ter2 | 3. 3. Groups within independent countries also used terror in their campaigns for political and social change such as the Basque organization, ETA, in Spain that has been responsible for hundreds of deaths in their desire to create a separate state. | Ter3 | 4. 4. In the 1970s, the term international terrorism began to be used to describe acts of violence committed by political groups outside their own country. | Ter4 | 5. 5. As terrorism continued in the 1980s, four main types of activity emerged: assassinations, bombings, seizures of hostages, and hijackings of airplanes and ships, often causing the loss of innocent lives. | Ter5 | 6. 6. One of the most prominent victims of political assassination was Egypt\'s President Anwar Sadat, killed in 1981 by Islamic religious extremists who disapproved of Sadat\'s ties to the USA and his peace treaty with Israel. | Ter6 | 7. 7. In 1988, a terrorist bomb blew up a US passenger plane over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 270 people. After years of international sanctions, Libya turned over 2 suspects, one of whom was convicted in 2001. | Ter7 | 8. 8. After the Iranian Revolution of 1979 that brought Islamic fundamentalists to power, Iranian militants seized the U.S. embassy and took some 50 Americans hostage for 444 days. | Ter8 | 9. 9. The Middle East has been the scene of countless terrorist attacks, many of which involve the hostility between Arabs and Jews in Israel. | Ter9 | 10. 10. The United States has experienced several serious terrorist attacks since the 1990s, both by foreign and domestic terrorists. | Ter10 | 11. 11. In 1993 a powerful truck bomb exploded in a garage under the World Trade Center causing extensive damage and 6 deaths. | Ter11 | 12. 12. In 1995, a federal office building in Oklahoma City was attacked by Timothy McVeigh, killing 168 people, including 15 children at a day care center. McVeigh had links to right-wing militias who claim the US is becoming a police state. | Ter12 | 13. 13. In 1998, two U.S. embassies were attacked using car bombs in Africa. US authorities tied the bombings to an exiled Saudi businessman named Osama bin Laden. | Ter13 | 14. 14. Terrorism reached a stunning new level of violence on September 11, 2001when the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City were destroyed. Between NYC, the attack on the Pentagon, and a downed plan in Pennsylvania, about 3,000 people were killed. | Ter14 | 15. 15. The PLO, or Palestinian Liberation Organization, was established in 1964 to organize a number of factions whose main goal was to destroy Israel and gain political control of Palestine. PLO was led for decades by Yasir Arafat. | Ter15 | 16. 16. Hamas was formed in 1987 and seen by its supporters as a legitimate fighting force defending Palestinian militant Islamist organization, and seen as a terrorist organization by Israel, the US and the EU. Its short-term goal has been to drive Israeli military forces from the occupied territories and launches attacks on Israeli troops and settlers. | Ter16 | 17. 17. The long and bitter war against Soviet occupation in Afghanistan in the 1980s gave rise to the organization called Al Qaeda led by the wealthy Osama bin Laden. | Ter17 |
1. The Jacobins in the French Revolution used their state power during the Reign of Terror to crush their political enemies.&choe=UTF-8
Question 1 (of 17)
2. After World War II, terrorism was used in a number of campaigns for national independence in places such as Kenya, Cyprus and South Yemen.&choe=UTF-8
Question 2 (of 17)
3. Groups within independent countries also used terror in their campaigns for political and social change such as the Basque organization, ETA, in Spain that has been responsible for hundreds of deaths in their desire to create a separate state.&choe=UTF-8
Question 3 (of 17)
4. In the 1970s, the term international terrorism began to be used to describe acts of violence committed by political groups outside their own country.&choe=UTF-8
Question 4 (of 17)
5. As terrorism continued in the 1980s, four main types of activity emerged: assassinations, bombings, seizures of hostages, and hijackings of airplanes and ships, often causing the loss of innocent lives.&choe=UTF-8
Question 5 (of 17)
6. One of the most prominent victims of political assassination was Egypt\'s President Anwar Sadat, killed in 1981 by Islamic religious extremists who disapproved of Sadat\'s ties to the USA and his peace treaty with Israel.&choe=UTF-8
Question 6 (of 17)
7. In 1988, a terrorist bomb blew up a US passenger plane over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 270 people. After years of international sanctions, Libya turned over 2 suspects, one of whom was convicted in 2001.&choe=UTF-8
Question 7 (of 17)
8. After the Iranian Revolution of 1979 that brought Islamic fundamentalists to power, Iranian militants seized the U.S. embassy and took some 50 Americans hostage for 444 days.&choe=UTF-8
Question 8 (of 17)
9. The Middle East has been the scene of countless terrorist attacks, many of which involve the hostility between Arabs and Jews in Israel.&choe=UTF-8
Question 9 (of 17)
10. The United States has experienced several serious terrorist attacks since the 1990s, both by foreign and domestic terrorists.&choe=UTF-8
Question 10 (of 17)
11. In 1993 a powerful truck bomb exploded in a garage under the World Trade Center causing extensive damage and 6 deaths.&choe=UTF-8
Question 11 (of 17)
12. In 1995, a federal office building in Oklahoma City was attacked by Timothy McVeigh, killing 168 people, including 15 children at a day care center. McVeigh had links to right-wing militias who claim the US is becoming a police state.&choe=UTF-8
Question 12 (of 17)
13. In 1998, two U.S. embassies were attacked using car bombs in Africa. US authorities tied the bombings to an exiled Saudi businessman named Osama bin Laden.&choe=UTF-8
Question 13 (of 17)
14. Terrorism reached a stunning new level of violence on September 11, 2001when the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City were destroyed. Between NYC, the attack on the Pentagon, and a downed plan in Pennsylvania, about 3,000 people were killed.&choe=UTF-8
Question 14 (of 17)
15. The PLO, or Palestinian Liberation Organization, was established in 1964 to organize a number of factions whose main goal was to destroy Israel and gain political control of Palestine. PLO was led for decades by Yasir Arafat.&choe=UTF-8
Question 15 (of 17)
16. Hamas was formed in 1987 and seen by its supporters as a legitimate fighting force defending Palestinian militant Islamist organization, and seen as a terrorist organization by Israel, the US and the EU. Its short-term goal has been to drive Israeli military forces from the occupied territories and launches attacks on Israeli troops and settlers.&choe=UTF-8
Question 16 (of 17)
17. The long and bitter war against Soviet occupation in Afghanistan in the 1980s gave rise to the organization called Al Qaeda led by the wealthy Osama bin Laden.&choe=UTF-8
Question 17 (of 17)
