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. How old was Inge Auerbacher when she first entered Terezin concentration camp | seven years old | 2. Why didn’t Inge’s family get turned into the Nazi earlier | Inge’s father was an injured war veteran for Germany | 3. What were ghettos | Ghettos were formerly the restricted areas of many European cities in which Jews were required to live | 4. What does Nazi mean | Nazi is an abbreviated form for National Sozialistische Deutsch Arbeiter-Partei, or National Socialist German Worker's Party | 5. What does the term Holocaust mean | Holocaust is a word of Greek origin meaning “sacrifice by fire” |
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