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.
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| 1. The Geneva Convention took place in 1929. | a | 2. 47 governments signed the Geneva Convention. | aa | 3. The Geneva Convention attempted to ensure the humane treatment of prisoners of war. | aaa | 4. The Geneva Convention attempted to do this by establishing rules to be followed by all nations. | aaaa | 5. The treatment of POWs in the Pacific Theater often reflected the savagery of the fighting there. | aaaaa | 6. The Bataan Death March | aaaaaa | 7. Nearly 70,000 American and Filipino soldiers were forced to march to a camp over 60 miles away. Somewhere between 5,000 and 11,000 soldiers died due to the lack of food and water. | aaaaaaa | 8. Commit suicide | b | 9. It more closely followed the ideas of the Geneva Convention. | bb | 10. (1)Write your name at the top (2) Clap twice (3) Study your resource guide for your quiz | ab |
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