QR Challenge: World War Two Starter Quiz

Created using the ClassTools QR Treasure Hunt Generator

Teacher Notes

A. Prior to the lesson:

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

• Download a QR reader (e.g. I-Nigma | NeoReader | Kaywa) onto their mobile devices
• Bring these devices into the lesson.

3. Print out the QR codes.

4. Cut them out and place them around your class / school.

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B. The lesson:

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!

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C. TIPS / OTHER IDEAS

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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Questions / Answers (teacher reference)

Question	Answer
1. An international organization formed in 1920 to promote cooperation and peace among nations	League of Nations
2. The treaty which officially ended WWI and which punished Germany severely for its role in the conflict	Treaty of Versailles
3. Hitler's idea of creating 'living space' for the German people in Eastern Europe	Lebensraum
4. The fascist leader of Germany from 1933-45	Adolf Hitler
5. The French and British policy of giving in to Germany's demands in order to prevent war	Appeasement
6. The union of Germany and Austria banned by the Treaty of Versailles	Anschluss
7. Leader of the USSR during WWII	Joseph Stalin
8. British Prime Minister before WWII; claimed to have achieved 'peace in our time'	Neville Chamberlain
9. Literally 'lightening war'; a fast-moving, mobile technique of warfare used by Germany in WWII	Blitzkrieg
10. The codename for the German invasion of Russia in 1941	Operation Barbarossa
11. An American naval base in Hawaii destroyed in a sneak attack by the Japanese on 6 December 1941	Pearl Harbour
12. A jungle track in Papua New Guinea along which Australians fought a successful series of battles against the Japanese	Kokoda Trail
13. Australia's Prime Minister during WWII	John Curtin
14. Hitler's plan to systematically murder the entire Jewish population of Europe in death camps	Final Solution to the Jewish Problem
15. The deliberate extermination of a racial or cultural group	Genocide
16. The biggest Nazi death camp of all; located in Poland	Auschwitz
17. The mass invasion of France on 6 June 1944 by the Allied Forces in order to push German troops out of occupied Europe	D-Day
18. A secret US project dedicated to the construction of the first nuclear weapons	Manhattan Project
19. The first Japanese city to be targeted by an atomic bomb; destroyed on 6 August 1945	Hiroshima
20. 'Night of Broken Glass' on 9 November 1938 in which the Nazi Government promoted a night of violence against German Jews	Kristallnacht

 

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