QR Challenge: The Sri Lankan Civil War

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. Who makes up the majority of the population in Sri Lanka?	Sinhalese
2. What was the old name of Sri Lanka?	Ceylon
3. What does ‘LTTE’ stand for?	Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
4. What was the main objective of the Tamil Tigers?	To create a separate independent state in the north and east of Sri Lanka called Tamil Eelam
5. Was the Sri Lanka conflict religious or racial by nature?	Racial
6. Why were the Indian Tamils upset when the citizenship act was passed in 1948?	They were denied of basic rights such as housing, education and jobs; they contributed significantly to the economy by working on tea plantations
7. “A Tamil family was driven away from their homes and lands to make way for the Sinhalese peasants from the southwestern and central areas.” What do you think is the factor that caused the unhappiness among the Tamils and hence, caused the conflict?	Resettlement policy
8. What was the official language of administration in Sri Lanka before it gained independence in 1948?	English
9. What were the implications of the ‘Sinhala Only’ policy on the Tamils?	Given 3 years to learn Sinhala or be dismissed; difficult to find jobs or be promoted
10. What was the solution to the riot caused by the ‘Sinhala Only’policy?	abc
11. Why was the university admission criteria unfair?	Tamil students had to score higher marks than the Sinhalese students to enter the same courses in the universities; a fixed number of places were reserved for the Sinhalese.
12. A view expressed by a Sinhalese about the civil war:"The LTTE soldiers would force the Tamil villagers at gunpoint to pay ‘taxes’ to them. Then the government troops come along to ‘free the village from the LTTE’. They imprison the same villagers for ‘helping’ the Tigers. In the end, the people suffer and the economy is devastated. There are no winners in a war, only losers".What can you infer about the conflict in Sri Lanka?	any valid inference

 

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