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. 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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