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. Soviet "buffer states". | Satellite Nations | 2. preparation for nuclear attacks in the US. | duck and cover | 3. Program started by Nixon to make South Vietnam responsible for its own defense while slowly pulling US troops out of Vietnam. | Vietnamization | 4. North Vietnamese sympathizers who fought against the US using guerrilla tactics. | Vietcong | 5. A break-in at the Democratic National Committee offices in the Watergate complex in Washington was carried out under the direction of White House employees. Disclosure of the White House involvement in the break-in and subsequent cover-up forced President Nixon to resign in 1974 to avoid impeachment. | Watergate Scandal | 6. Policy of openness initiated by Gorbachev in the 1980s that provided increased opportunities for freedom of speech, association and the press in the Soviet Union. | Glasnost | 7. US President who took a major role in escalating the Vietnam War and was the first president to send troops. | Lyndon B. Johnson | 8. president, 1981-1989, who led a conservative movement against détente with the Soviet Union and the growth of the federal government. | Ronald Reagan | 9. a policy initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev that involved restructuring of the social and economic status quo in communist Russia towards a market based economy and society. | Perestroika | 10. 2 week confrontation between US and Cuba/USSR in which nuclear conflict came very close. US put a blockade on Cuba and eventually we promised to move missiles from Turkey if they did from Cuba. | Cuban Missile Crisis |
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