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. He was president of the United States during World War I	Woodrow Wilson
2. His assassination was the spark the began World War I	Franz Ferdinand
3. He was the last King of Russia	Czar Nicholas II
4. He led the Russian Revolution	Vladimir Lenin
5. He was the leader of Germany during World War I	Kaiser Wilhelm
6. This terrorist group was blamed for the assassination of Franz Ferdinand	The Blackhand
7. This type of warfare was used a lot in World War I	Trench Warfare
8. The first submarine was called	U-boat
9. This passenger ship was sunk by the Germans leading to the U.S. entering the war	Lusitania
10. The name of the telegram sent from Germany to Mexico during Word War I	Zimmerman Telegram
11. Name 3 new countries created after World War I	Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Yugoslavia
12. Name 3 empires that no longer existed after World War I	Ottoman Empire, Austrian-Hungarian Empire, German, Russian
13. What country was forced to pay reparations for World War I	Germany
14. What was the name of the International Peacekeeping group that Woodrow Wilson came up with	League of Nations
15. Which country did not join the League of Nations	United States

 

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