QR Challenge: Moments in History

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. What is the last sentence of Martin Luther King’s, “I have a dream speech?”
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3. When, by whom and HOW were the borders of modern day Iraq drawn?
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5. How many Palestinian refugees are there today and where are the refugee camps?
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7. What happened at the Munich Conference in 1938?
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9. What percentage of the current African country borders are geometric?
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11. When did African and Asian colonies gain independence from their European colonizer? (look at five countries on each continent)
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13. Why is UN Resolution 282 significant?
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15. What events led to the fall of the Berlin Wall?
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17. How did the stock market crash in 1929 affect two countries (besides the US)?
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19. What were the three most significant ‘inventions’ of the 20th century?
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21. What reasons were given by the US government for dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945?
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23. What did Churchill mean when he uttered the famous phrase, “the Iron Curtain?”
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25. Were women better off at the end of the twentieth century than the beginning?Defend your answer with specific examples.
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27. When was a ‘crime against humanity’ first used in international law and in what situations has it been applied since?
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29. How has 20th century war fueled medical advancements?
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31. What was the first ‘television’ war?
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33. What happened during US Operation Peter Pan and Operation Urgent Fury?
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35. How many communist revolutions took place in the twentieth century (and where)?
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37. What are two instances in that a sport was used as a political tool in the 20th century?
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39. Give the percentage of casualties (soldiers/civilians) in three twentieth century wars?
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41. You choose! What moment in your opinion shaped history in the 20th century and why?

 

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