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.
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| 1. The 'problem' that Mussolini needed to solve was the coalition in parliament. Discuss the Acerbo Law as a 'successes' of Mussolini. | In February 1923, Mussolini and the Fascist Grand Council introduced the Acerbo Law. This law changed election results. Now if one party got just 25% (or more) of the votes cast in an election, they would get 66%of the seats in parliament.1 | 2. Who was Matteotti? what happened to him and when?2 | He was an Italian socialist politician. On 30 May 1924, he openly spoke in the Italian Parliament alleging the Fascists committed fraud in the recently held elections, and denounced the violence they used to gain votes. Eleven days later he was kidnapped and killed by Fascists 2. | 3. Propaganda and boycott.To what extent did Mussolini successful in boycotting free press? 3 | From 1923 there was a censorship on the press. Mussolini was known to check all news before published in the morning; yet he was not succesful in his boycott as Radio free London aired over Italy. His censorship was not strict enough to boycott free press: see article: https://www.libertarianism.org/columns/mussolini-press 3 | 4. What were the Rocco laws? 4 | 1926 Alfredo Rocco’s Labour Relations law. Identified seven branches of economic activity. Each had its syndicate which bargained with the bosses essentially replacing trade unions. 4 | 5. Debate the relationship between Mussolini and the Roman Catholic Church.5 | Lateran Treaties,Catholic Action, Marriages, Baptism, Manifesto of the Italian Race, education 5 | 6. What was the Ovra 6 | In 1927, a secret police force was set up called the OVRA and it was lead by Arturo Bocchini. The death penalty was reintroduced for “serious political offences”. By 1940, the OVRA had arrested 4000 suspects but only 10 people from 1927 to 1940 were ever sentenced to death. 6 | 7. What were the Squadristi?7 | squadristi was originally the paramilitary wing of the National Fascist Party and, after 1923, an all-volunteer militia of the Kingdom of Italy. Its members were distinguished by their black uniforms.Their methods became harsher as Mussolini's power grew, and they used violence and intimidation against Mussolini's opponents.In 1943 the MVSN was integrated into the Italian armed forces.7 |
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