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. What did the leaders of totalitarian governments have in common? | They were totalitarian | 2. What sparked World War II? | Germany invaded Poland | 3. What did Japan hope to gain by attacking Pearl Harbor? | Japan needed time to gain control over East Asia | 4. How did the war affect U.S. businesses | Businesses converted to make products for war | 5. How did the war create opportunities for women? | Women got jobs in factories and the military | 6. How did the war create challenges for minorities? | Minorities were still discriminated against | 7. Why were Japanese Americans interned? | Japanese Americans were suspected of being spies | 8. What battle plan did the Allies agree to pursue after American entry into the war? | The Allies decided to fight in North Africa first | 9. What was the goal of the D-Day invasion? | To liberate France and begin to liberate Europe | 10. Why could the U.S. Pacific Fleet not immediately stop the Japanese advance? | It was weakened after the attack on Pearl Harbor | 11. How did the Allied victory at Midway change the course of the war in the Pacific? | It weakened Japan's navy. | 12. How did the Allied strategy in the Pacific change starting in 1943? | They started the strategy of island hopping | 13. What events led to Germany's surrender? | Allied forces surrounded Berlin | 14. What was the purpose of the Nazis' "final solution"? | The extermination of Jewish people, as well as Gypsies, Slavs, political opponents, and people with physical or mental disabilities | 15. Why did Japan surrender? | Two atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
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