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 was the father of the factory | Richard Arkwright | 2. The Electricity King. Who was this 2 | Michael Faraday | 3. George Stephenson was the father of the 3 | Railways | 4. Transporting slaves from England, Africa and to the US was called 4 | Slave triangle | 5. Who shot Archduke Franz Ferdinand 5 | Gavrilo Princip | 6. Which alliance leading up to WW 1 did Britain belong to 6 | The Triple Entente | 7. Whose face and pointed finger picture told men to enlist 7 | Lord Kitchener | 8. What was the name of the plan the Germans followed to end the war in 7 weeks 8 | Schlieffen Plan | 9. Which battle lasted from July-Nov 1916 killing over 1m men 9 | The Somme | 10. What do the initials DORA stand for 10 | Defence of the Realm Act | 11. Which medal did Hitler win in the 1st World War 11 | Iron Cross | 12. Hitler wrote a book called Mein Kampf. What is the translation 12 | My Struggle | 13. What event in America in 1929 helped the Nazis gain power 13 | The Wall Street Crash | 14. Which treaty did Hitler tear up 14 | Versailles | 15. Where Hitler march into in 1936 15 | The Rhineland | 16. What policy is Neville Chamberlain famous for 16 | Appeasement | 17. Which leader signed a pact with Hitler in 1939 17 | Stalin | 18. Operation Dynamo was the code name for the evacuation from where 18 | Dunkirk | 19. Which invention helped the RAF win the Battle of Britain 19 | Radar | 20. On which Japanese city was the first atomic bomb dropped on 20 | Hiroshima |
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