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. A policy in which a strong nation seeks to dominate other countries politically, socially, and economically. | Imperialism | 2. War fought between the US and Spain in Cuba and the Philippines. It lasted less than 3 months and resulted in Cuba's independence as well as the US annexing Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines. | Spanish-American War | 3. Ship canal cut across the isthmus of Panama by United States Army engineers; it opened in 1915. It greatly shortened the sea voyage between the east and west coasts of North America. | Panama Canal | 4. American boat that was sunk by the German U-boats; made America consider entering WWI. | Lusitania | 5. This government agency oversaw the production of all American factories. It determined priorities, allocated raw materials, and fixed prices; it told manufacturers what they could and could not produce. | War Industries Board | 6. the war aims outlined by President Wilson in 1918, which he believed would promote lasting peace; called for self-determination, freedom of the seas, free trade, end to secret agreements, reduction of arms and a league of nations. It was rejected by countries like France who sought revenge. | Fourteen Points | 7. an international organization formed in 1920 to promote cooperation and peace among nations. | League of Nations | 8. information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view. | Propaganda | 9. nations should share trading rights with US particularly in China. | Open Door Policy | 10. President Taft's policy of using the nation's economic power to exert influence over other countries. | Dollar Diplomacy |
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