QR Challenge: World War II battles

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. This area was annexed in the 1938 Anschluss	Austria
2. In 1935, Mussolini made aggressive moves here in an effort to avenge a loss in 1896. The western powers did nothing to stop the move either...and Hitler learned a valuable lesson...	Ethiopia
3. Member of the Axis Powers	Germany
4. Member of the Axis Powers	Italy
5. Member of the Axis Powers	Japan
6. By sending troops here, Hitler was in violation of the Treaty of Versailles AND the Locarno Treaty	Rhineland
7. In 1936, a civil war broke out here but its effects reached far beyond this one country. Fascist Italy and Germany aided Francisco Franco against the republic (aided by the Soviet Union). Right-wing against left-wing...this was the 'practice round' for what was about to hit the world!	Spain
8. Francisco Franco	see photo
9. This British leader feared war so much that he convinced the Czechs to make concessions to Germany and give them what they wanted	Neville Chamberlain
10. This was the French prime minister, Edouard Daladier	see photo
11. This symbolizes appeasement, or giving in to an aggressor in order to avoid conflict	see photo
12. In this speech, the British leader promises "peace for our time" as he returns from what 1938 meeting?	Munich
13. The invasion of this land officially began World War II	Poland
14. This symbolizes the ill-fated Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact	see cartoon
15. This was the new fighting style of the German army called blitzkrieg, meaning 'lightening warfare'	see photo
16. These neighboring territories became puppet governments of the Soviet Union by 1940	Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania
17. The Soviet Union invaded in 1939 but met fierce resistance for the next six months. Seeing the difficulty that the USSR had with this nation MAY have compelled Hitler to move against the USSR	Finland
18. On your map, draw in the Maginot Line and discuss its importance	see drawing
19. Germany overran these areas, giving Hitler air and naval bases closer to Britain	Belgium, Luxemburg, Netherlands
20. This is Winston Churchill, he replaced Neville Chamberlain as prime minister of Great Britain in 1940	see photo
21. The German Luftwaffe was larger in size than the British RAF (Royal Air Force) but the RAF had better training	see photo
22. Franklin D. Roosevelt, the American president, found ways to help the Allied Powers even before the U.S. entry into the war	see photo
23. Bombings took place here every night for more than 2 months; 15,000 people were killed but the survivors were united in their struggle against German forces...they never were taken over	Battle of Britain
24. This country was the intended target of Operation Barbarossa	Russia
25. General Erwin Rommel, known as the Desert Fox, was stopped at this battle	El Alamein
26. In 1941, Britain assisted this nation in their fight against Germany; this diversion, along with extended fighting in the Balkans and Yugoslavia slowed Hitler's advances into Russia...just in time for winter	Greece
27. In the summer of 1943, Allied Powers invaded this area...Mussolini was ousted but Germany tried to defend Italy	Sicily
28. Hitler was determined to take this city and the Soviet leader was equally as determined to defend it; Soviets lost more men in this one battle than the Americans did in the entire war	Stalingrad
29. This was the site of the largest amphibious landing in world history; it was necessary for the western powers to re-gain a foothold in continental Europe after the event dubbed the 'Miracle at Dunkirk'	D-Day

 

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