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. Led a successful coup to oust remain Qajar leaders in 1925 | Reza Khan | 2. Reestablished authoritarian rule in by declaring himself shah | Reza Khan | 3. Received power from his father in 1941 | Mohammad Reza Shah | 4. Transformed Iran into a rentier state due to foreign influence on oil | Mohammad Reza Shah | 5. Created the fifth largest military by 1979 | Mohammad Reza Shah | 6. Launched revolution to counter Communist influences | Mohammad Reza Shah | 7. Led a revolution to further secularize Iran by extending women’s rights | Mohammad Reza Shah | 8. Declared Iran a one part state in 1975 with his Resurgence Party | Mohammad Reza Shah | 9. Loosened restraints on oppositional voices at the urging of President Jimmy Carter | Mohammad Reza Shah | 10. Most important revolutionary leader, especially as a cleric | Khomeini | 11. Most charismatic revolutionary leader within Iran | Khomeini | 12. Gave new meaning to the principle entitled jurist’s guardianship | Khomeini | 13. Exiled to Paris during the unrest leading up to the 1979 revolution | Khomeini | 14. 99% of the electorate endorsed this leader’s constitution | Khomeini | 15. Endorsed a cultural revolution to launched by Shia leaders to purify the country | Khomeini | 16. Died in 1989 | Khomeini | 17. Power of this leader’s presence inspired faith in the government even during the war | Khomeini | 18. Believed in Islamic fundamentalism and articulated resentment toward the U.S. | Khomeini | 19. Emphasized Iranian nationalism in objection to Mohammad Reza | Prime Minister Mossadeq | 20. Advocated for nationalization of Iran’s oil business | Prime Minister Mossadeq | 21. Elected PM in 1951 | Prime Minister Mossadeq | 22. Suffered an overthrow due to international forces | Prime Minister Mossadeq | 23. Does not have the same magnetism as the previous Supreme Leader | Supreme Leader Khamenei | 24. Some scholars in Iran initially questioned the legitimacy of his appointment in 1989 | Supreme Leader Khamenei | 25. He was a conservative president that sought to antagonize the west | Ahmadinejad | 26. He appealed to Iranian nationalism to solidify his white coup of reformists | Ahmadinejad | 27. He closed newspapers, banned websites and did not tolerate peaceful | Ahmadinejad demonstrations | 28. He won in 2005 on the second ballot | Ahmadinejad | 29. Attempted to end the freeze between Iran and the West between 1997 and 2005 | President Khatami | 30. Iranians experienced the “Tehran Spring” during his presidency | President Khatami | 31. His presidential loss in 2009 ignited the Green Movement | Mousavi |
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