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. 1. Who was the ruler of Russia at the beginning of the twentieth century? | Tsar Nicholas II | 2. 2. What two parties did the Social Democrats split into in 1903? | Bolsheviks and Menshevik | 3. 3. Who was the Tsarina during WWI? | Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna | 4. 4. What colour is traditionally used to represent communcism? | Red | 5. 5. What title did Hitler give himself? | Fuhrer | 6. 6. What was the Enabling Act? | Was a 1933 amendment to the Weimar Constitution that gave the German Cabinet (Adolf Hitler) the power to enact laws without the involvement of the Reichstag | 7. 7. What name is given to the event when S.S. soldiers killed significant S.A. leaders such as Ernst Rohm? | Night of the Long Knives | 8. 8. What is propaganda? | Propaganda is a form of communication aimed towards influencing the attitude of a population toward some cause or position | 9. 9. What is one name commonly used to describe the decade of the 1920s? | Roaring 20s or the Jazz Age | 10. 10. What is prohibition? | Is the legal act of prohibiting the manufacture, storage, transportation and sale of alcohol and alcoholic beverages | 11. 11. What year did the October Revolution take place? | 1917 | 12. 12. What was Bloody Sunday? | Was the name that came to be given to the events of 22 January 1905 in St Petersburg, Russia, where unarmed demonstrators marching to present a petition to Tsar Nicholas II were fired upon by soldiers of the Imperial Guard, approaching the city center and the Winter Palace from several gathering points | 13. 13. Which 1925 novel is set in the 1920s was written by F. Scott Fitzgerald? | The Great Gatsby | 14. 14. Who am I? I was a Russian peasant, mystic and healer. I was born in Siberia in 1869. I was the fifth of nine children and I never attended school. I was brutally murdered by posioning, shooting, clubbing and drowning | Grigori Rasputin. | 15. 15. Henry Ford developed a new method of car production in 1909, what was it? | The assembly line | 16. 16.List 3 different types of propaganda | Film, Novels, Flyers, etc | 17. 17. Define ‘revolution’ | An overthrow or repudiation and the thorough replacement of an established government or political system by the people governed | 18. 18. What happened to the Reichstag building? | It was severely damaged in a fire | 19. 19. Who was Karl Marx? | Was a German philosopher, economist, sociologist, historian, journalist, and revolutionary socialist | 20. 20. What three things did Lenin promise to provide for Russians? | Peace, land and bread | 21. 21. What were the Dumas? | Were council assemblies that were created by the Tsar of Russia | 22. 22. What is a gangster? | Is a criminal who is a member of a gang | 23. 23. How did America recover from the Great Depression? | The common view among most economists is that Roosevelt's New Deal policies either caused or accelerated the recovery, although his policies were never aggressive enough to bring the economy completely out of recession | 24. 24. What were 3 social issues of the 1920s? | Racism, Women's Rights etc. | 25. 25. What was a Hooverville? | Is the popular name for shanty towns built by homeless people during the Great Depression | 26. 26. For what reasons was Prohibition enacted? | The First World War, The new authority of women, A half-century of campaigning by church leaders, politicians, evangelists and women’s groups, The existing moral climate of the time, Rural paranoia about urban intrusion. | 27. 27. What was ‘Volksgemeinschaft’? | Is a German-language expression meaning "people's community" | 28. 28. What was the S.S.? | Was a major paramilitary organization under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party | 29. 29. What was the S.A.? | Functioned as the original paramilitary wing of the Nazi Party | 30. 30. What were 3 points in Hitlers 25 point plan? | We want all Germans to live in a "Greater Germany" |
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