QR Challenge: Medieval Weapons

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. In ancient times, regions invaded other regions to acquire what two things?	Land & Wealth
2. What were the extremely large torsion powered weapons called that were used to sling large projectiles into castles?	Trebuchets
3. What is the torsion powered catapult called that uses twisted ropes and includes a sling?	onager
4. Name 3 types of weapons used in pitched battles.	Daggers, BAttles Axes, Bow & Arrows, Clubs & Spears
5. How did armies continue to attempt to take over a castle after when sieges and battles failed?	Attack the castle walls or dig tunnels under walls to collapse the walls
6. Explain how the blockade technique was used in a siege	Cut off food supply and fresh water to the castle and attempt to force the enemy out of the castle
7. Pitched battles took place on the battlefield and involved what type of combat?	Hand-to-Hand
8. Name the medieval weapon that used torsion in the form of twisted ropes and proved to be more powerful than the flexion powered weapons.	Ballista
9. What do you call the tall moveable towers that were rolled up to the castle for battles?	Siege towers
10. What is the name of the flexion powered weapon that was more powerful than a gastraphete?	Oxybele

 

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