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. Vietnam War Causes from America | believed that communism was threatening to expand all over south-east Asia. | 2. Vietnam War Events | My Lai Massacre killed 347 to 504 unarmed south vietnamese citizens one of the largest military movements in the Vietnamese war | 3. Vietnam War Outcome | there was no true winner and both sides were left in total chaos and destruction | 4. Vietnam War Truman Administration | Truman wanted to contain communism so that it wouldn't spread to other countries | 5. Vietnam War Eisenhower Administration | Eisenhower believed that the CIA would solve the spread of communism | 6. Vietnam War Kennedy Administration | Kennedy wanted military intervention to deal with communism | 7. NATO | an intergovernmental military alliance between several North American and European states based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949Warsaw Pact | 8. Brinkmanship | the art or practice of pursuing a dangerous policy to the limits of safety before stopping, typically in politics. | 9. Space Race | refers to the 20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals, the Soviet Union (USSR) and the United States (US | 10. Civil War in China | Mao Zedong and his policies -Chinese leader | 11. Great Leap Forward | was an economic and social campaign by the Communist Party of China (CPC) from 1958 to 1962 | 12. Cultural Revolution | was a sociopolitical movement that took place in China from 1966 until 1976 | 13. Causes | Korean War began when North Korea, supported by the Soviet Union and China, invaded South Korea, which was supported by the United States. | 14. Events | 1949 A pro-Soviet puppet government is left in charge of North Korea with a vastly superior army to U.S.-supported South | 15. Outcome March | 1953 Formal peace treaty never signed. Over 1,000,000 Koreans and 54,000 Americans killed in conflict plus thousands who die as prisoners of war | 16. Cold War | The Cold War was a state of geopolitical tension after World War II between powers in the Eastern Bloc and powers in the Western Bloc. | 17. Nonaligned Nations | Nations of the Third World that as a group rejected alliance with either the United States or the former Soviet Union | 18. Cuba | Cuba is a Caribbean island nation under communist rule. | 19. Cuban Missile Crisis | known as October Crisis, the Caribbean Crisis, or the Missile Scare was a 13 day confrontation between US and Soviet Union over America. | 20. Civil War in Nicaragua | revolution that Uproared do to the dictatorship underwing 1978-79, this led to making Nicaragua a Major battle ground throughout the Cold War. | 21. Religious clashes | clash between Christianity and Islam | 22. Politics of the Middle East | we got involved because Russia started to spread communism to Iran and other parts of the middle east | 23. What happened that connects to today???? | Iran wanted our help to get rid of Russia and in the process we left them in ruins and didn't help rebuild which led to extremist groups being created which attacked the US on American soil sparking a war. | 24. Conclusion of WWII | After WW2 the world got a good view of how harsh a war can be. | 25. Yalta Conference | Yalta Conference was the second wartime meeting of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. During the conference, the three leaders agreed to demand Germany’s unconditional surrender and began plans for a post-war world. | 26. Potsdam Conference | Held near Berlin, the Potsdam Conference (July 17-August 2, 1945) was the last of the World War II meetings held by the “Big Three” heads of state. Featuring American President Harry S. Truman, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (and his successor, Clement Attlee) and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin, the talks established a Council of Foreign Ministers and a central Allied Control Council for administration of Germany. | 27. United States | what is their national identity at this time and what are their goals? | 28. Soviet Union | what is their national identity at this time and what are their goals? - Goals were Soviet Union vied with the United States of America for geopolitical influence, this competition manifested itself in numerous treaties and pacts dealing with military alliances and trade agreements, and in proxy wars. | 29. Iron Curtain | the notional barrier separating the former Soviet bloc and the West prior to the decline of communism that followed the political events in eastern Europe in 1989. | 30. Containment | Truman's Containment policy was the first major policy during the Cold War and used numerous strategies to prevent the spread of communism abroad. | 31. Truman Doctrine | established that the US would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces. | 32. Marshall Plan | America Plan so help the Western European, also Gave 3 billion in Economic to help rebuild after WWII | 33. Destalinization | eradicating the memory and influence of Joseph stalin | 34. sovereign state in Central Europe | Soviet-Chinese split | 35. Brinkmanship | pursuing a dangerous policy to the limits of safety | 36. Detente | the easing of hostility or strained relations, especially between countries |
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