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. who met at the Yalta conference after WWII | The Allies. | 2. What U.S President helped escalate tension between the U.S and Soviet Union | President Harry Truman. | 3. Why did America think that the Soviet Union was taking over the World | Because the Soviet Union was helping spread Communism around the world. | 4. Why did the Soviet Union think that America was taking over the world | because they were setting up naval and air-force bases around the world. | 5. what is the Iron Curtain | barrier separating the former Soviet bloc and the West. | 6. Name The Western Superpower | American. | 7. What does Truman mean when he says “armed minorities or outside influences" | The communist party or Soviet Union | 8. What or who is Truman referring to when he says “free people who are resisting attempted subjugation" | The people of Turkey and Greece. | 9. Name the Eastern Superpower | Soviet Union. | 10. What is the Containment plan the U.S used to aid Turkey and Greece | the Truman Doctrine. | 11. What did George Marshall mean by "The Seeds (of Communism) are nurtured by misery and want | That with out aid more countries will fall to communism. | 12. Truman described Marshall aid and the Truman Doctrine as "Two halves of the same walnut"what did he mean by this | That both plans are aimed at helping European countries and stopping the spread of communism. | 13. What is a flash point | is a place, event, or time at which trouble such as violence or anger, flares up. | 14. what is a satillet state | is a “country that is formally independent in the world, but under heavy political, economic and military influence or control from another country.” | 15. Why was Churchill so insistent about the U.S helping European countries? | Because the British were to weak to do it themselves. | 16. How did the Soviet Union view the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall plan? | The Soviet Union viewed it as American trying to take over the world. | 17. What is a political Conservative? | someone who wants to preserve the existing order of society, government, and the economy | 18. What is a political liberal? | is someone who supports progress, often through change. | 19. Who presented the Soviet Union as an immediate threat? | President Truman. | 20. What is espionage? | the practice of spying or using spies. | 21. What Senator led a crusade to find Communist traitors in the U.S Government during the 1950s? | Senator Joseph McCarthy. |
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