QR Challenge: Hiroshima Final Review Scavenger Hunt Extravaganza!

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. True or false: Mr. Fukai wanted to be left at the mission to die	true
2. True or false: After being unconscious for three hours, Miss Sasaki managed to dig herself out of the wreckage of the tin factory	false
3. True or false: A whirlwind ripped through Asano Park after the dropping of the bomb, toppling huge trees	true
4. True or false: According to President Truman’s radio announcement, the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima had more power than twenty thousand tons of TNT and was the largest bomb ever used	true
5. True or false: The people of Hiroshima felt that it was a wonderful blessing to hear the voice of their Emperor on the radio	true
6. True or false: Mr. Tanimoto felt lucky that he wasn’t hurt when he saw so many maimed and injured people	false
7. True or false: Observers many miles away from Hiroshima heard no explosion but saw a blinding white flash	false
8. True or false: Before the bomb fell on Hiroshima, Dr. Fuji owned a 80 room hospital	false
9. True or false: One thing that Father Kleinsorge saved from his room was a paper mache suitcase	true
10. True or false: Because of the radioactivity no vegetation grew in Hiroshima for several months	false
11. What type of mood was the man that finally rescued Miss Sasaki in	A terrible mood
12. How did the horribly wounded people in Asano Park react	They didn't complain
13. How was suicide considered in Japan	honorable
14. How many days after the first bomb was dropped did Japan surrender	9 Days
15. Who is the author	John Hersey
16. Which of the six characters was pinned between two timbers in the river	Dr. Fujii
17. Which of the six characters became a nun and was crippled for life	Ms. Sasaki
18.	Which of the six characters was completely destitute (poor) one year after the explosion
19. Which of the six characters tried to save Mr. Fukai by carrying him on his back	Father Kleinsorge
20. Which of the six characters was watching a neighbor tear down his house for a fire lane	Mrs. Nakamura
21. Which of the six characters took survivors by boat to a place of safety	Mr. Tanimoto

 

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