QR Challenge: World War I

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. a kitchen garden planted during wartime to relieve food shortages	Victory Garden
2. German telegram sent to Mexico proposing an alliance- stated that Germany would help Mexico reconquer the lose territory of New Mexico	Zimmerman Note
3. Truce that ended the war- 11th hour, 11th day, 11th month of 1918(Veterans Day)	Armistice
4. Money from the sale of these provided loans to the Allies to buy food and war supplies	Liberty Bonds
5. Organization of nations formed to settle international disputes and maintain peace (failed - US did not join, no military force)	League of Nations
6. Airplanes, poison gas, machine guns, and tanks	3 new weapons used to fight in the trenches
7. neither side can win a clear victory	Stalemate
8. Final peace settlement of World War I (harsh on Germany	Treaty of Versailles
9. Area between opposing trenches	No-man's land
10. Britain, France, and Russia- Later joined by Italy	Allies
11. heir to throne in Austria who was assassinated by a Serb nation nationalisted(started war)	Franz Ferdinand
12. Austria-Hungray, Germany, joined later by Bulgaria and Ottoman Empire	Central Powers
13. To prepare military for war	Mobilize
14. Required men 21-30 to register to be drafted into the armed services	Selective Service Act
15. British passenger ship sunk by a German U-Boat - 1200 people died including 128 Americans	Lusitania
16.	Propaganda
17. Explain the Schieflan Plan?	Avoid a two front war.
18. Define Impearlism?	Stronger powers control weaker powers.
19. Define Militarism?	build of military in preparation of war.
20. How did the Alliance System lead the world into war?
21. How did the assassination start WWI?	initiated the alliance system
22. What was Wilson peace plan called?	fourteen points
23. Why did the USA not join the League of Nations?	might get us into a war we didn't want to fight.
24. What years was the war fought?	1914-1918
25. When did the US enter the war?	1917
26. What were the american soldiers called?	doughboys

 

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