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QR Challenge: Pigeons

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

3. Print out the QR codes.

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


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!


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.


Questions / Answers (teacher reference)

Question

Answer

1. What were pigeons used for in world war 1?1To carry messages.1
2. Why were pigeons used?2They were less likely to be stopped by enemy troops.2
3. How were pigeons vulnerable?3Enemy troops would try to shoot the pigeons and later on, birds of prey, such as the hawk were used to attack the pigeons.3
4. How did homing pigeons know where to fly with the message?4Homing pigeons would always fly back to their nests, so the soldiers just had to make sure that the nests were where the message needed to be delivered.4
5. How did pigeons carry messages?5 Messages were written on small pieces of paper which were then rolled up and attached to the pigeons leg. These messages were often in code as an extra precaution.5

 



Pigeons: QR Challenge

https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=What_were_pigeons_used_for_in_world_war_1?1

Question 1 (of 5)

 



Pigeons: QR Challenge

https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=Why_were_pigeons_used?2

Question 2 (of 5)

 



Pigeons: QR Challenge

https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=How_were_pigeons_vulnerable?3

Question 3 (of 5)

 



Pigeons: QR Challenge

https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=How_did_homing_pigeons_know_where_to_fly_with_the_message?4

Question 4 (of 5)

 



Pigeons: QR Challenge

https://www.classtools.net/QR/decode.php?text=How_did_pigeons_carry_messages?5

Question 5 (of 5)